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.

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.

Always give the rabble something to love and something to hate.

What does it mean to be healthy? Heal Thy.

No action is without its side effects.

Goals in writing are dreams with deadlines.

As soon as we are shown the existence of something old in a new thing, we are pacified.

I can evade questions without help; what I need is answers

I think that the invisibility of hunger in America - to the eye - is what's keeping it invisible politically and to America at large.

A sense of righteousness is even more dangerous than a violent temper.

We can say what we like without favour or fear and what we can't say we can breathe in your ear

True happiness consists in being considered deserving of it.