“The major problems in the world are the result of the difference between how nature works and the way people think”

“The fundamental difference between civilized and indigenous ways of being is that for even the most open-minded of the civilized, listening to the natural world is a metaphor. For traditional indigenous peoples it is not a metaphor; it is how you relate to the real world.”

“There are two kinds of people in the world: Submissive and rebellious. The problem of the world is that majority is in the first category!”

“For example, the dwarfs found out how to turn lead into gold by doing it the hard way. The difference between that and the easy way is that the hard way works.”

“The chief difference [between totalitarian and free countries] is that only the totalitarians appear clearly to know how they want to achieve that result, while the free world has only its past achievements to show, being by its very nature unable to offer any detailed "plan" for further growth.”

“Unhappiness does not come from the way things are, but from the difference between how things are and how we think they should be”