Progress and change has been made over the years by people breaking from traditions.

Almost every significant breakthrough is the result of a courageous break with traditional ways of thinking.

The past is memory. The future is imagination. All that exists is now.

The exciting breakthrough of the 21st century will occur not because of technology, but an expanding of what it means to human. concept of what it means to be human.

He who blames others has a long way to go on his journey. He who blames himself is halfway there. He who blames no one has arrived.

Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.

We still have a choice today: nonviolent coexistence or violent coannihilation. This may well be mankind's last chance between chaos and community.

I'm a writer, and I will write what I want to write.

Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it.

My prayer is that when I die, all hell rejoices that I am out of the fight.

It's a rare gift, you know, to feel reverence for your own life and to want the best, the greatest, the highest possible, here, now, for your very own.

At the center of your being you are the answer. You know who you are, and you know what you want.

I propose to raise a revolution against the lie that the majority has the monopoly of the truth.

When civil fury first grew high, and men fell out they knew not why.

America’s abundance was not created by public sacrifices to the “common good,” but by the productive genius of free men who pursued their own personal interests and the making of their own private fortunes.

We demand that big business give the people a square deal; in return we must insist that when anyone engaged in big business honestly endeavors to do right he shall be given a square deal.

That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach.

Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.

The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.

Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.

As the eagle was killed by the arrow winged with his own feather, so the hand of the world is wounded by its own skill.

Why has government been instituted? Because the passions of men will not conform to the dictates of reason & justice without constraint.