If industrialism, with its faster pace of life, has accelerated the family cycle, super-industrialism now threatens to smash it altogether.

The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.

Our moral responsibility is not to stop future, but to shape it...to channel our destiny in humane directions and to ease the trauma of transition.

You've got to think about big things while you're doing small things, so that all the small things go in the right direction.

If we do not learn from history, we shall be compelled to relive it. True. But if we do not change the future, we shall be compelled to endure it. And that could be worse.

The first rule of survival is clear: Nothing is more dangerous than yesterday's success.

Future shock is the shattering stress and disorientation that we induce in individuals by subjecting them to too much change in too short a time.

One of the definitions of sanity is the ability to tell real from unreal. Soon we'll need a new definition.

A new civilization is emerging in our lives, and blind men everywhere are trying to suppress it.

The responsibility for change...lies within us. We must begin with ourselves, teaching ourselves not to close our minds prematurely to the novel, the surprising, the seemingly radical.

Knowledge is knowing... or knowing where to find out.

One who practices pure religion soon discovers it is more rewarding to lift a man up than to hold him down.

The largest uniqueness of yours is where you are special and differ from others

Don't be so quick to throw away your life. No matter how disgraceful or embarrassing it may be, you need to keep struggling to find your way out until the very end.

The truth hurts but a lie will eventually as well

There is a place for visionaries and the avant-garde in this world, but not at 9 o'clock on a network.

A lot of people wonder, what is the blues? Well, I'm gonna tell you what the blues is.

England is the first country that I've had a no. 1 album in, so it is now officially my home away from home.

Every abridgement of a good book is a fool abridged.

There are performers who have built their whole career doing magic on TV and can't really perform live at all - don't really have jobs and skills.

Each mans spills the drink he loves.