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

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.

You can use all the quantitative data you can get, but you still have to distrust it and use your own intelligence and judgment.

Invest in yourself, because you will only ever achieve the level of success that matches your level of wisdom.

What voice did on my spirit fall, Peschiera, when thy bridge I crost? 'Tis better to have fought and lost That never to have fought at all!

I just love the sheer mess of New York.

this is the upside of already being eternally damned

Music survives everything, and like God, it is always present. It needs no help, and suffers no hindrance.

What is style? For many people, a very complicated way of saying very simple things. According to us, a very simple way of saying very complicated things.

It is one of those quirks of human nature that you love the person whom you treat well, not necessarily the person who treats you well.

In all men is evil sleeping; the good man is he who will not awaken it, in himself or in other men.

My inspiration's coming from nature, I love nature and all the expressions, I love art, I love expressions of beauty. It's part of my life, being engaged in the moment.

I never sought to privatize Social Security.