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

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.

Don't neglect the gifts in you. Power reserved is function suspended. The day you choose to switch on your passion is the day you will see your dunamis power in you. Be inspired!

I must say I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a good book.

A bank in Washington was robbed by two men in George W. Bush masks. Luckily, right afterwards two guys in President Obama masks came and bailed the bank out, so everything is fine.

As much as Id love to be a successful actor, the thought of being recognised in the street is petrifying.

Dance to the light that is your soul.

For what can war, but endless war, still breed?

Words have a love for each other, a desire that culminates in poetry.

Everything happens for the purpose of what you decide to do about it.

Be discriminating when dispensing charity. In the name of charity or philanthropy, we tend to do injustice to one's country.

Don't let your life outside of school dictate your future.