“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.”

I look for what needs to be done

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.

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

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.

The javelin-snake amphiptere hurls itself from the branches of trees.

We must surrender ourselves so utterly that we can never own ourselves again. We must hand over self and all its rights in an eternal covenant, and give God the absolute right to own us, control us and possess us forever.

And long we try in vain to speak and act Our hidden self, and what we say and do Is eloquent, is well — but ’tis not true!

One bright and thankful look at the cross is worth a thousand morbid, self-condemning reflections.

If one were searching for the best means to efface and kill in a whole nation the discipline of self-respect, the feeling for what is elevated, he could do no better than take the American newspapers.

American women were frustrated in just the role of housewife – but they also managed to enlarge it. And they weren’t just housewives, they were community leaders.

It took me a long time and much painful boomeranging of my expectations to achieve a realization everyone else appears to have been born with: That I am nobody but myself.

Wait for those unguarded moments. Relax the mood and, like the child dropping off to sleep, the subject often reveals his truest self.