The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.

What is required is sight and insight, then you might add one more excite.

Onecomes to believe whatever one repeats to oneself sufficiently often, whetherthe statement be true or false. It comes to be dominating thought in one'smind.

There is much more learning than knowing in the world.

My greenthumb came only as a result of the mistakes I made while learning to seethings from the plant's point of view.

He whoangers you, conquers you.

If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, youwouldn't sit for a month.

Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.

Lower your voice and strengthen your argument.

Knowingthat everything's futile but still fighting, still raging against the dying ofthe light that's what motivates me all the time ... If you hold that sense offutility in your head for too long, it can begin to eat into you. You canstill be aware of it

We think too small. Like the frog at the bottom of the well. He thinks the sky is only as big as the top of the well. If he surfaced, he would have an entirely different view.

The property of power is to protect.