Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it.

Do not let spacious plans for a new world divert your energies from saving what is left of the old. 

Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.

I have a great respect for incremental improvement, and I've done that sort of thing in my life, but I've always been attracted to the more revolutionary changes. I don't know why. Because they're harder. They're much more stressful emotionally. And you usually go through a period where everybody tells you that you've completely failed.

Japan's very interesting. Some people think it copies things. I don't think that anymore. I think what they do is reinvent things. They will get something that's already been invented and study it until they thoroughly understand it. In some cases, they understand it better than the original inventor.

Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.

A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business. 

Intelligence is the application of knowledge.

I can’t find time for busy people. I am as busy as they are!

I have also seen children successfully surmounting the effects of an evil inheritance. That is due to purity being an inherent attribute of the soul. 

Prejudice is a chain, it can hold you. If you prejudice, you can't move, you keep prejudice for years. Never get nowhere with that.

Even the rich are hungry for love, for being cared for, for being wanted, for having someone to call their own.