“Great nations are simply the operating fronts of behind-the-scenes.”

You can never learn less, you can only learn more.

My ideas have undergone a process of emergence by emergency. When they are needed badly enough, they are accepted.

Now there is one outstandingly important fact regarding Spaceship Earth, and that is that no instruction book came with it.

Dictators never invent their own opportunities.

Vastly ambitious individuals who had become so effectively powerful because of their ability to remain invisible while operating behind the national scenery.

Truth is a tendency.

Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.

Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.

I look for what needs to be done. After all, that’s how the universe designs itself.

The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.

I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I’ve invented.

The most important thing about Spaceship Earth – an instruction book didn’t come with it.

People should think things out fresh and not just accept conventional terms and the conventional way of doing things.

Here is God’s purpose – for God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.

I’m not a genius. I’m just a tremendous bundle of experience.

By 2000, politics will simply fade away. We will not see any political parties.

If you are living for tomorrow, you will always be one day behind.

Experts tell us that 90% of all brain development occurs by the age of five. If we don’t begin thinking about education in the early years, our children are at risk of falling behind by the time they start Kindergarten.

Crazy Horse dreamed and went into the world where there is nothing but the spirits of things. That is the real world that is behind this one, and everything we see here is something like a shadow from that world….

Live so that when the final summons comes you will leave something more behind you than an epitaph on a tombstone or an obituary in a newspaper.

When we are confronted by failure and mistakes, we can leave them behind and go on with our lives.

Fashion: a barricade behind which men hide their nothingness.

Satire is, more than those he brands, to blame; He hides behind a magisterial air He own offences, and strips others’ bare.

A farmer’s horse is never lame, never unfit to go. Never throws out curbs, never breaks down before or behind.