Every child has an enormous drive to demonstrate competence.

Wealth is a measure of a person's ability to survive so many days forward.

There is no such thing as a failed experiment, only experiments with unexpected outcomes.

Great nations are simply the operating fronts of behind-the-scenes, vastly ambitious individuals who had become so effectively powerful because of their ability to remain invisible while operating behind the national scenery.

It is essential that anyone reading this book know at the outset that the author is apolitical. I was convinced in 1927 that humanity's most fundamental survival problems could never be solved by politics.

A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.

A pattern has an integrity independent of the medium by virtue of which you have received the information that it exists.