Give your freedom to someone or to something and then look at yourself what have you got? I tell you, you've got nothing left!
Doing what's right isn't the problem. It is knowing what's right.
We believe, that is, you and I, that education is not an expense. We believe it is an investment.
To sustain an environment suitable for man, we must fight on a thousand battlegrounds. Despite all of our wealth and knowledge, we cannot create a redwood forest, a wild river, or a gleaming seashore.
I'm a powerful S. O. B. , you know that?
Our objective in South Vietnam has never been the annihilation of the enemy. It has been to bring about a recognition in Hanoi that its objective - taking over the South by force - could not be achieved.
Knowledge is of two kinds: we know a subject itself, or know where to find it.
And for the sake of humility--a characteristic crucial to sacred questioning we might do well to confess that we're capable at any moment of such bad religion ourselves.
I have to confess that I'm in a constant state of evolution in terms of the way I feel about it. When I was doing early pieces, I wasn't exactly in love with the idea of building the stuff. I could do it because I had the skills, but I really did it because I couldn't find anyone else to build it for me.
We must look at the lens through we see the world, as well as the world we see, and that the lens itself shapes how we interpret the world.
And as he spoke of understanding, I looked up and saw the rainbow leap with flames of many colors over me.