“I don't worry about the survival of the novel. We're a storytelling species.”

“If our thoughts are going to affect what we become, then it should certainly be a priority that we think right thoughts.”

“Running is the greatest metaphor for life, because you get out of it what you put into it. ”

“The main way people waste time is by complaining of their past wasted time. Leaders respond even if it seems to be late.”

“There is nothing certain, nothing at all except the unimportance of everything I understand, and the greatness of something incomprehensible but all-important.”

“Years ago I heard a well-known Bible teacher say, “If you want to find a spiritual person, don't look in the church.” He said that because in church you can't tell who is real and who is putting”

“You must be always hungry and thirsty.” The Baron caressed his bulges beneath the suspensors. “Like me.”

“I do not expect old heads on young shoulders.”

“Always choose the future over the past. What do we do now?”

“The word "frustration" is defined as the unfortunate tendency of lessening one's destiny. Rise up and take all frustrations away! Stop squeezing your dreams into a small size... You were not created to settle for less!”

“Envy and greed starve on a steady diet of thanksgiving.”

“Only people can be made to increase in value. Computers and other equipment depreciate and eventually become obsolete.”

“God has a plan and the devil has a plan, and you will have to decide which plan you are going to fit into.”

“Modern psychology has a word that is probably used more than any other word in modern psychology. It is the word “maladjusted.” This word is the ringing cry to modern child psychology. Certainly, we all want to avoid the maladjusted life. In order to have real adjustment within our personalities, we all want the well‐adjusted life in order to avoid neurosis, schizophrenic personalities. But I say to you, my friends, as I move to my conclusion, there are certain things in our nation and in the world which I am proud to be maladjusted and which I hope all men of good‐will will be maladjusted until the good societies realize. I say very honestly that I never intend to become adjusted to segregation and discrimination. I never intend to become adjusted to religious bigotry. I never intend to adjust myself to economic conditions that will take necessities from the many to give luxuries to the few. I never intend to adjust myself to the madness of militarism, to self‐defeating effects of physical violence… In other words, I’m about convinced now that there is need for a new organization in our world. The International Association for the Advancement of Creative Maladjustment‐‐men and women who will be as maladjusted as the prophet Amos. Who in the midst of the injustices of his day could cry out in words that echo across the centuries, “Let justice roll down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream.”

“Un líder es grande, no por su poder, sino por su habilidad de hacer surgir poder a otros.”