Geniuses are just people who had good mothers.

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

Initiative can neither be created nor delegated. It can only spring from the self-determining individual, who decides that the wisdom of others is not always better than his own.

It is one of the strange facts of experience that when we try to think about the future, our thoughts jump backwards. It may well be that nature has some fundamental metaphysical law by which opening up what we call the future also opens up the past in equal degree.

I am a passenger on the spaceship Earth.

Wealth is the product of energy times intelligence: energy turned into artifacts that advantage human life.

If I ran a school, I'd give the average grade to the ones who gave me all the right answers, for being good parrots. I'd give the top grades to those who made a lot of mistakes and told me about them, and then told me what they learned from them.