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If we pay great attention to the meaning of each moment of our unique life, the meaning of life in general will attend to itself.

Lead yourself, lead your superiors, lead your peers, and free your people to do the same. All else is trivia.

Only fools worship their tools

We are at that very point in time when a 400-year old age is rattling in its death bed and another is struggling to be born.

An organization, no matter how well designed, is only as good as the people who live and work in it.

Failure is not to be feared. It is from failure that most growth comes.

It is far too late and things are far too bad for pessimism.

The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but how to get old ones out.

Every mind is a room packed with archaic furniture.

Just as bad money drives out good, the broad, deep, inclusive renaissance mind is being driven out by the narrow, specialized, technical mind.

Don't preach. Don't teach. Don't judge. Take a loved child by the hand and explore something fascinating together.

There is nothing at which government is more adept or diligent than relieving people of their money.

The closest thing to a law of nature in business is that form has an affinity for expense, while substance has an affinity for income.

The ultimate profanity is to invoke any deity in support of death or destruction in any form, particularly war.

The relational aspect of all things is the music that sets life and the universe dancing.

Great achievements would be few and far between without gross overestimation of the advantages and pleasures to be expected from them.

Of this we can be certain: at no time, in no place, and in no way is anything in the universe separate, independent, or unrelated.

Adam was the first man, Eve the first woman, Satan the first consultant, and God the first entrepreneur.

Certainty is the place where questions go to die.

What is a question but a moment of discontent in pursuit of understanding? What is an answer but a moment of illusion in our flight from ignorance?

Make an empty space in any corner of your mind, and creativity will instantly fill it.

Making good judgments when one has complete data, facts, and knowledge is not leadership - it's bookkeeping

Preserve substance; modify form; know the difference.

Life will never surrender its secrets to a yardstick.

With the advent of genetic engineering the time required for the evolution of new species may literally collapse.

The greatest writers have no purpose but to incite in the minds of each reader the highest and best thought of which they are capable.

The disgruntled are abundant among those who are idle, and to be idle is a matter of choice.

Heaven is purpose, principle, and people. Purgatory is paper and procedure. Hell is rules and regulations.

What we call originality is no more than ignorance of antecedents.

Language was a huge expansion of that capacity to deal with information.

Particularity and separability are infirmities of the mind, not characteristics of the universe.

Far better than a precise plan is a clear sense of direction and compelling beliefs. And that lies within you. The question is, how do you evoke it?

Children are easily taught, for they readily accept and believe lies told by their elders.

If you don't understand that you work for your mislabeled 'subordinates', then you know nothing of leadership. You know only tyranny.

No one can teach us the joy of living; we are endowed with it. So why are we continually waiting for the lecture?

Success follows those adept at preserving the substance of the past by clothing it in the forms of the future.

Do not get angry, stubborn, and imperious. Get curious.

If you think you can't, why think

Substance is enduring, form is ephemeral.

The most common lesson of history is that the butchery of one mass of people by another is, in the minds of the butchers, sanctioned by their god.

Life is so uncertain that it is far better and more joyous to play your way through it than to plan or pray your way through it.

Much of that which passes for conversation these days is the lobbing of small bombs of dogma and little clots of banality at one another.

Great thought, great achievement, and great love have this in common: all involve great risk.

Nothing can be more violent and merciless than a group of true believers, no matter what they choose to believe.

Knowledge is never in doubt. Wisdom is never certain.

The most abundant, least used, and most abused resource in the world is human spirit and ingenuity.