The inflection point at which we have arrived is one in which we are increasingly seizing the keys to all creation, as astonding as that might seem.

The next frontier is our own selves.

In order for the Prevail Scenario to work ... you will have to have a world in which you have both differences between people and opportunities for intense connectedness.

If you put a large switch in some cave somewhere, and a sign on it saying, "End-of-the-World Switch. PLEASE TO NOT TOUCH," the paint wouldn't even have time to dry.

Today the story is no less attitude-adjusting. It is about the defining cultural, social and political issue of our age. It is about human transformation.

The essence of being human is being creative.

In 1920 [H.G. Wells] described human history as becoming more and more a race between education and catastrophe.