There is hope in dreams, imagination, and in the courage of those who wish to make those dreams a reality.

Wisdom: It's something that you know when you see it. You can recognize it, you can experience it. I have defined wisdom as the capacity to make judgments that when looked back upon will seem to have been wise.

Your dreams tell you what to do; your reason tells you how to do it.

I couldn't possibly have become a member of this Institute, you know, if I hadn't organized it myself.

A wisdom deficit - fewer elders and even fewer people who listen to them.

If all insects disappeared, all life on earth would perish. If all humans disappeared, all life on earth would flourish.

What you see in living systems, and in genetic systems, is that the genes are already there, having arisen in the course of time, and when they are needed they become activated. If they had to be invented, the time would be too late.