People in this world of superficial communication find themselves isolated and lonely and have difficult in talking about personal things that really matter to them.

When will we make the same breakthroughs in the way we treat each other as we have made in technology?

Art is, nowadays, our new religion and museums are our cathedrals.

The kind of conversation I like is one in which you are prepared to emerge a slightly different person.

A dream is what makes people love life even when it is painful.

Only when people learn to converse will they begin to be equal.

Each person is an enigma. You're a puzzle not only to yourself but also to everyone else, and the great mystery of our time is how we penetrate this puzzle.

I think the hero in our generation is not the individual but the pair, two people who together add up to more than they are apart.

The past is what provides us with the building blocks. Our job today is to create new buildings out of them.

We should strive to be employed in such a way that we don't realize that what we're doing is work.

All invention and progress comes from finding a link between two ideas that have never met.

We all have the same root, and are connected...To tap into this connectedness we must go within.

The widespread adoption of broadband and the continued advances in personal computing technology are finally making it possible for the collective creation of an online world on a realistic scale.

Man and the earth move in orbits: what they did before, they will do again.

Ever notice that people who believe in creationism look really unevolved? Eyes real close together, big furry hands and feet. "I believe God created me in one day." Yeah, looks like he rushed it.

I personally spend the majority of my time by far on outreach and education and fundraising and administration.

Poverty persuades a man to do and suffer everything that he may escape from it.

The older I get...the more of my mother I see in myself.

I can't think that leaving Earth once is enough.

Sometimes we overemphasize the political system. There are other ways to make a difference. There's technology, there's media, there's business.

I [who] am perpetually making notes in the margin of my mind for some final statement.