The struggle we're dealing with these days, which, I think, is part of what the 60s represented, is how do we define our humanity?

Evolution favors the survival of the wisest.

Our greatest responsibility is to be good ancestors.

Find the right questions. You don't invent the answers, you reveal the answers.

Life is an error-making and an error-correcting process.

Risks, I like to say, always pay off. You learn what to do, or what not to do.

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

There is no such thing as failure, there's just giving up too soon.

The most important question we must ask ourselves is, 'Are we being good ancestors?'

I think that rebellions arise out of anger, and they're very short-lived.

I think Detroit shows that we've come to the end of the industrial epoch and have to find a new mode of production.

We have to see today in light of the transition, say, from hunting and gathering to agriculture, and from agriculture to industry, and from industry to post-industry. We're in an epoch transition.

Wage work is disappearing. I didn't make the jobs disappear, but they have disappeared. And people are forced to be looking for other alternatives.

I think that at some level, people recognize that growing our economy is destroying us. It's destroying us as human beings, it's destroying our planet.

I think it's really important that we get rid of the idea that protest will create change.

This capitalist society has not lasted forever; it's only a few hundred years old.

Really, people are not a school of fish. Finding the leaders of the future is a question of recognizing those people who give leadership in a crisis.

We're at a great transition point in terms of population, demographics, and what it means to be a human being.

Nonviolence is essentially based on recognizing the humanity in every one one of us.