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

I look for what needs to be done

Initiative can neither be created nor delegated. It can only spring from the self-determining individual, who decides that the wisdom of others is not always better than his own.

You don’t belong to you. You belong to the Universe and you’re here to serve.

Man knows so much and does so little.

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

We are in an age that assumes the narrowing trends of specialization to be logical, natural, and desirable. Consequently, society expects all earnestly responsible communication to be crisply brief…. In the meantime, humanity has been deprived of comprehensive understanding.

What usually happens in the educational process is that the faculties are dulled, overloaded, stuffed and paralyzed so that by the time most people are mature they have lost their innate capabilities.

Observation of my life to date shows that the larger the number for whom I work, the more positively effective I become. Thus, it is obvious that if I work always and only for all humanity, I will be optimally effective.

And never forget, no matter how overwhelming life’s challenges and problems seem to be, that one person can make a difference in the world. In fact, it is always because of one person that all the changes that matter in the world come about. So be that one person.

It is the consensus of great scientists that science is the attempt to set in order the facts of experience.

Our power is in our ability to decide.

I do not look upon human beings as good or bad.

Universe is plural at minimum sixfold.

Each one of us has something to contribute. This really depends on each one doing their own thinking, but not following any kind of rule.

It is the integrity of each individual human that is in final examination. On personal integrity hangs humanity’s fate.

All are intractably skeptical of what they do not understand. We are powerfully imprisoned in these Dark Ages simply by the terms in which we have been conditioned to think.

One of the great lessons I’ve learned in athletics is that you’ve got to discipline your life. No matter how good you may be, you’ve got to be willing to cut out of your life those things that keep you from going to the top.

The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof.