Some people drift along like a cork on a river, feeling that they cannot do anything except drift, moment to moment. This is an attitude of mind. Everyone can be constructive even in tiny ways.

We still seek to solve conflicts with 'judgement' instead of designing the way forwards.

You can analyse the past, but you need to design the future. That is the difference between suffering the future and enjoying it.

Child mortality since 2000 is down by 2.65 million a year. That's a rate of 7,256 children's lives saved each day. ... It drives me nuts that most people don't seem to know this news.

A characteristic of intuitive solutions and new ideas is that of being obvious once they are discovered.

We need both information and thinking. Information is no substitute for thinking and thinking is no substitute for information.

You hold onto religion, you know, rules, regulations, traditions. I think what God is interested in is people's hearts, and that's hard enough.