If the world is saved, it will not be saved by old minds with new programs but by new minds with no programs at all.

But we're not humanity, we're just one culture - one culture out of hundreds of thousands that have lived their vision on this planet and sung their song. If it were humanity that needed changing, then we'd be out of luck. But it isn't humanity that needs changing, it's just...us.

We need schools to force kids to learn things they have no use for.

Many of the biggest and most far-reaching investments we make in our lives are investments that have little or nothing to do with money.

The obvious can sometimes be illuminating when perceived in an unhabitual way.

The world is not in any sense in danger from itself. The world is in fact not in any danger at all. It is we who are in danger.

Pity is always twinged with disgust.