If you are going to learn mathematics, you have to learn it not simply as an abstraction but as it is applied. I always say to teachers, for goodness sake, take the kids out first to look at the stars in order to understand infinity.

Laughter is the loaded latency given us by nature as part of our native equipment to break up the stalemates of our lives and urge us on to deeper and more complex forms of knowing.

I am ready for the rest of my life to rise.

Time has driven out sex and money as the central issues. Now if it could only drive out the issue of power we would be somewhere!

Stories are living and dynamic. Stories exist to be exchanged. They are the currency of Human Growth.

We are still a pioneer culture in some ways. A pioneer culture has to put all of its muscle into surviving on the frontier and pushing back the wilderness. So when you start to talk about imagination, inner space, and the structures of the psyche, that becomes scary.

The world needs the sense that we are all in it together.