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.

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.

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.

You can't pick up the telephone and say, 'Connect me with someone else who has a kid with leukemia.'

Corpses sour you. They are bad for objectivity.

It is not that I am very intelligent, but I try to understand with love.

Think less of yourself and more of others…and others will think more of you. ~Jason Versey

My god, they're everywhere.

I just always loved watching the History Channel and stuff like that. I could come home from school and just watch it all day. It just interested me.

Crime in full glory consolidates authority by the sacred fear it inspires.

Professional soldiers are people who die for a living.

Although I am a committed Catholic priest, and nowhere hide that fact, my focus is very much a spiritual journey.

If you find yourself in some difficulty, step aside, and allow Buddha to take your place. The Buddha is in you.