Any disease support community is a place of deep bonds and empathy, and there are thousands if not tens of thousands of them.

Its not a global village, but we're in a highly interconnected globe.

Democracy is not just voting for your leaders; it's really premised upon ordinary citizens understanding the issues.

Humans are humans because we are able to communicate with each other and to organize to do things together that we can't do individually.

Knowing of how to make use of online tools without being overloaded with too much information is, like it or not, an essential ingredient to personal success in the twenty-first century.

Whenever a technology enables people to organize at a pace that wasn't before possible, new kinds of politics emerge.

If, like many others, you are concerned social media is making people and cultures shallow, I propose we teach more people how to swim and together explore the deeper end of the pool.

A lot of people use collaborative technologies badly, then abandon them. They aren't 'plug-and-play.' The invisible part is the social skill necessary to use them.

If you depend on where the chestnuts are going to be, and where the deer are, you have to be attuned to the outside world.

People's social networks do not consist only of people they see face to face. In fact, social networks have been extending because of artificial media since the printing press and the telephone.

I think e-mail petitions are an illusion. It gives people the illusion that they're participating in some meaningful political action.

He was a wise man who invented God.

Raindrops blossom brilliantly in the rainbow, and change to flowers in the sod, but snow comes in full flower direct from the dark, frozen sky.

There are struggles you cannot win, but a man can meet his own heart if value is found in loss. Give yourself permission to cry.

Here we stand between two eternities of darkness. What are we to do with this glory while it is still ours?

My mother cared more about how you reasoned than about the conclusions you reached.

With the proper motivation, that is, a good reason for wanting to do it, your mind can overcome any sort of adversity.

I say no words... I can't speak with him. I shy. He too good.

In certain books—some way in the first few paragraphs you know that you have met a brother.

A bitter jest, when it comes too near the truth, leaves a sharp sting behind it.

You get more insight as you get older, on everything. I kind of woke up one morning and was like, 'Oh I see what's happening, I get everything'. I woke up and was like, 'I get it, I'm a product'.