Every time I try to define a perfectly stable person, I am appalled by the dullness of that person.

Every time I try to define a perfectly stable person, I am appalled by the dullness of that person.

We are not going to be able to operate our Spaceship Earth successfully
nor for much longer unless we see read more

We are not going to be able to operate our Spaceship Earth successfully
nor for much longer unless we see it as a whole spaceship and our fate as
common. It has to be everybody or nobody.

Genius is entitled to respect only when it promotes the peace and improves the happiness of mankind.

Genius is entitled to respect only when it promotes the peace and improves the happiness of mankind.

The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealized read more

The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealized past.

I will grow. I will become something new and grand, but no grander than I now am. Just as the read more

I will grow. I will become something new and grand, but no grander than I now am. Just as the sky will be different in a few hours, its present perfection and completeness is not deficient, so am I presently perfect and not deficient because I will be different tomorrow. I will grow and I am not deficient.

Maturity begins to grow when you can sense your concern for others outweighing your concern for yourself.

Maturity begins to grow when you can sense your concern for others outweighing your concern for yourself.

Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for
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Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for
the things we did not do that is inconsolable.

You are what you are and you are where you are because of what has gone
into your mind. You read more

You are what you are and you are where you are because of what has gone
into your mind. You change what you are and you change where you are by
changing what goes into your mind.

What every man needs, regardless of his job or the kind of work he is doing, is a vision of read more

What every man needs, regardless of his job or the kind of work he is doing, is a vision of what his place is and may be. He needs an objective and a purpose. He needs a feeling and a belief that he has some worthwhile thing to do. What this is no one can tell him. It must be his own creation. Its success will be measured by the nature of his vision, what he has done to equip himself, and how well he has performed along the line of its development.