Progress is a choice. Job creation is a choice. Whether we give our children a future of more or a future of less - this, too, is a choice.
The one good thing about not seeing you is that I can write you letters.
For twenty-seven years I was witness to the spiritual deterioration of my own father, watching day after day how everything human in him left him and how gradually he turned into a grim monument to his own self.
When you have once gained sight, it is impossible to feign blindness.
He suddenly opened his eyes and looked at everyone in the room. It was a terrible gaze, mad or maybe furious and full of fear of death. . . Then something incomprehensible and frightening happened. . . . He suddenly lifted his left hand as though he were pointing to something above and bringing down a curse on us all. . . . The next moment, after a final effort, the spirit wrenched itself free of the flesh.
As a result of half a century of Soviet rule people have been weaned from a belief in human kindness.
Trees and flowers were often more meaningful to me than people. They always helped me, consoled me, giving the soul a chance to believe once more than the world was beautiful and sensible, that the mad absurdities and cruelties of men were against the laws of Nature and the Universal Mind; that sooner or later violence would suffer utter defeat on this Earth. No words collected in books were more effectively convincing to me than foliage, clouds, rippling waters, rain.
The second best decision in time is infinitely better than the perfect decision too late.
Perhaps the way to meet tomorrow's challenges is not to use yesterday's solutions, but to dare to think the previously unthinkable, to speak the previously unspeakable, and to try that which was previously out of the question.
Cyberspace undeniably reflects some form of geography.
The cornerstone on which all things are based is man's concept of himself.