House speaker Thomas read could see the trend, but he could not have changed himself.

It's too late to leave the future to the futurists.

The difference between successful people and really successful people is that really successful people say no to almost everything.

They ran their heads very hard against wrong ideas, and persisted in trying to fit the circumstances to the ideas instead of trying to extract ideas from the circumstances.

Knowledge is not the same as wisdom. You can know all the facts and still not be able to act wisely. But without knowledge, it is harder to be wise –– even if what wisdom tells us is that knowledge is very often provisional and that we cannot wait to have certainty about every fact before we act.

The most important part of discernment is pinpointing the forces to be reckoned with, both the constructive and destructive.