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.

You can use all the quantitative data you can get, but you still have to distrust it and use your own intelligence and judgment.

Surviving makes other people’s tears unbearable. You might drown in them.

One must not let oneself be overwhelmed by sadness.

Our problem is that we go from toy to toy rather than from glory to glory.

I can recapture everything when I write, my thoughts, my ideals and my fantasies.

Any innovation that is evident in my paintings is a direct result of something that happened in the course of making a print.

Hip-hop is a cultural expression - it's embracing.

Everybody denies I am a genius - but nobody ever called me one!

I'm in a position where I'm being continually knocked back for the kind of independent films I want to be in because people don't know who I am.

Providence has hidden a charm in difficult undertakings, which is appreciated only by those who dare to grapple with them.

I can't say, over the miles, that I had learned what I had wanted to know because I hadn't known what I wanted to know. But I did learn what I didn't know I wanted to know.