The biggest tragedy I had was the loss of my daughter from neuromuscular disease in 2000, at age 46.

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.

Sometimes, when I couldn’t afford to pay the utility bill at the end of the month, I was forced to read by the light of the stories themselves.

Rapport is the link between meeting and communicating.

Trust in yourself, your ability, and your struggles, but not in your appetite.

In every dream, there lays a cost to be paid. The potency and relevance of your ideas will determine the cost to be paid!

Every moment a beginning. Every moment an end.

Yes I say that I am enlightened. What does that mean? It means I live in a condition of light...There really is no primary self anymore.

Photography is 10% inspiration and 90% moving furniture.

In all, we investigated, I think, close to 50 rumors about offers to kill Dr. King around the country. But we found no evidence to support rumors of FBI involvement in the assassination.

In short, if we wish to see anything sensible done about the situation, we will clearly have to do it ourselves.

There is one common struggle against those who have appropriated the earth, the money, and the machines.