If you do not design the future, someone or something else will design it for you.

The weapons of the positive revolution are not bullets and bombs but simple human perceptions. Bullets and bombs may offer physical power but eventually will only work if they change perceptions and values. Why not go the direct route and work with perceptions and values?

This is not about charity, it's about justice... The war against terror is bound up in the war against poverty - I didn't say that, Colin Powell said that . . . In these disturbing and distressing times, surely it's cheaper, and smarter, to make friends out of potential enemies than it is to defend yourself against them..Justice is the surest way to get peace.

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

The system will always be defended by those countless people who have enough intellect to defend but not quite enough to innovate.

Sometimes the situation is only a problem because it is looked at in a certain way. Looked at in another way, the right course of action may be so obvious that the problem no longer exists.

Intelligence is something we are born with. Thinking is a skill that must be learned.