Getting and having, not being and becoming, now govern our lives, and terrible taskmasters they are indeed.

Effectiveness knows what efficiency will never learn.

When a rule is broken, the first impulse of rule makers is to make another. The better remedy rarely occurs to them—remove the rule.

Justice is always greater than law. Law may aspire to justice, but it can rise no higher than codification of behavior and control of dissent by force.

The measure of education should not be knowledge regurgitated, expertise applied, or money earned, but the testimony of lives well and fully lived.

It is more important to open our arms to let something old go than to open them to embrace something new.

Water does not always seek the lowest ground, as evaporation and snow on a mountain clearly demonstrate.

The universe is held together by attraction, not by force. Would that societies were the same.

It matters little whether my book reaches a handful of people or millions, for if it influences the right few, others will follow.