The most reliable way to forecast the future is to try to understand the present.

Lawyers are like beavers: They get in the mainstream and damn it up.

Strategic planning is worthless - unless there is first a strategic vision.

The most exciting breakthroughs of the 21st century will not occur because of technology but because of an expanding concept of what it means to be human.

We are drowning in information but starved for knowledge.

The more high technology around us, the more the need for human touch...HighTech/High Touch. The principle symbolizes the need for balance between our physical and spiritual reality.

The new source of power is not money in the hands of a few, but information in the hands of many.

Leadership involves finding a parade and getting in front of it.

Trends, like horses, are easier to ride in the direction they are going.

The new leader is a facilitator, not an order giver.

We have for the first time an economy based on a key resource [Information] that is not only renewable, but self- generating. Running out of it is not a problem, but drowning in it is.

I never want to look back on life and say I wish I did something, and I don't want anybody else to do that.

A society that refuses to strive for superfluities is likely to end up lacking in necessities.

Some people have a fear of rejecting all the security that comes with family, church and state. They become fundamentalists.

Venice seemed incredibly lovely, elvishly lovely--to me like a dream of Old Gondor, or Pelargir of the Numenorean Ships, before the return of the Shadow.

Now comes the part where I relieve you, the little people, of the burden of your failed and useless lives. But remember, as my plastic surgeon always said: if you gotta go, go with a smile.

From '41 to '51I was my folk's contrary son;I bit my father's hand right throughAnd broke my mother's heart in two.

I think everyone should experience defeat at least once during their career. You learn a lot from it.

However difficult, however scary, I had to live my truth. I chose to be more brave than I was afraid and am loving my life as a result.

The key to learning is feedback. It is nearly impossible to learn anything without it.

Art as language....in the future there will only be art. This common language will carry the message of love.