What people most need now is to apply their conversion skills to those things that are essential for their survival. They need to convert facts into logic, free will into purpose, conscience into decision. They need to convert historical experience into a design for a sane world.

History is a vast early warning system.

Optimism doesn't wait on facts. It deals with prospects. Pessimism is a waste of time.

Nothing is more powerful than an individual acting out their conscience, thus helping bring the collective conscience to life.

The one thing I have learned about editing over the years is that you have to edit and publish out of your own tastes, enthusiasms, and concerns, and not out of notions or guesswork about what other people might like to read.

The essence of man is imperfection. Failure is simply a price we pay to achieve success. If we learn to embrace that new definition of failure, then we are free to start moving ahead - and failing forward.

Each patient carries his own doctor inside him.