When things get bad enough, then something happens to correct the course. And it's for that reason that I speak about evolution as an error-making and an error-correcting process. And if we can be ever so much better - ever so much slightly better - at error correcting than at error making, then we'll make it.

It is courage based on confidence, not daring, and it is confidence based on experience.

I see the triumph of good over evil as a manifestation of the error-correcting process of evolution.

A good parent gives their child roots and wings.

In my view, art and the approach to life through art, using it as a vehicle for education and even for doing science is so vital that it is part of a great new revolution that is taking place. I believe we are entering a whole new epoch.

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

I have had dreams and I have had nightmares, but I have conquered my nightmares because of my dreams.