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.

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.

What treasures he would give for one night with her. To watch her strip off one of her vintage dresses, revealing her satin skin inch by inch just for him.

A true prophet would rather be believed false by many but actually true than believed true by many but actually false.

I realized that it was not that I didn’t want to go on without him. I did. It was just that I didn’t know why I wanted to go on

You look at a guy who's being brave. He's afraid or he wouldn't be brave. If he isn't afraid he's stupid.

Those who enter through the back door can expect to be shown out through the window

I have one main reader, Miriam Gomez, my wife. She reads everything I write - I have not finished writing something and she is already reading it.

John Green is a very handsome, intelligent, and wise man. He smells really weird though.

I value all things as nothing in comparison with having the spirit of God to guide me.

They say I couldn't play football, I was too small. They say I couldn't play basketball, I wasn't tall. They say I couldn't play baseball at all and now everyday of my life, I ball.

Code never lies, comments sometimes do.