“Don't assume the world evolved in the order in which you discovered it.”

“I've discovered that in order to make big changes in the world, we have to begin at home -- within ourselves”

“If we discovered that, you know, space aliens were planning to attack and we needed a massive buildup to counter the space alien threat and really inflation and budget deficits took secondary place to that, this slump would be over in 18 months. … There was a Twilight Zone episode like this in which scientists fake an alien threat in order to achieve world peace. Well, this time, we don't need it, we need it in order to get some fiscal stimulus.”

“Drama assumes an order. If only so that it might have — by disrupting that order — a way of surprising.”

“The most frightening thing in the world is to discover the abnormal in that which is closest to us.”

“But it's always intriguing to discover the ways in which desire fuels the systems of the world.”

“The world is changing much too fast for us to have a moribund system which is not flexible, which cannot evolve and develop with changes in our society, in our country, as they come about in the world.”

“Learning something means coming into contact with a world of which you know nothing. In order to learn, you must be humble.”

“The entire method consists in the order and arrangement of the things to which the mind’s eye must turn so that we can discover some truth.”

“Life is change. If you aren't growing and evolving, you're standing still, and the rest of the world is surging ahead.”