Whenever a technology enables people to organize at a pace that wasn't before possible, new kinds of politics emerge.

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.

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.

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.'

Individually, we are one drop.Together, we are an Ocean.

I like colorful tales with black beginnings and stormy middles and cloudless blue-sky endings. But any story will do.

Ego gets you inches but it doesn't get you impact.

Generosity, pleasing address, courage and propriety of conduct are not acquired, but are inbred qualities.

Make people's portraits in familiar and typical attitudes.

Let the greatest part of the news thou hearest be the least part of what thou believest, lest the greater part of what thou believest be the least part of what is true.

When giving, praying, and fasting are practiced together in the life of a believer, it creates a type of threefold cord that is not easily broken.

Religions are the training wheels of self enlightenment. They can be helpful in the beginning but at some point they must be let go.

You can expect what you inspect.

A great while ago the world begun, With hey, ho, the wind and the rain; But that's all one, our play is done, And we'll strive to please you every day.