I actually think people generally have an awareness and feel like, ‚Wow, these networks have a lot of information.‘

I became a journalist partly so that I wouldn’t ever have to rely on the press for my information.

Meditation is a state of mind which looks at everything with complete attention, totally, not just parts of it. And no one can teach you how to be attentive. If any system teaches you how to be attentive, then you are attentive to the system, and that is not attention.

The thing about delirium is you think it’s great, but it actually isn’t.

Historically, privacy was almost implicit, because it was hard to find and gather information. But in the digital world, whether it’s digital cameras or satellites or just what you click on, we need to have more explicit rules – not just for governments but for private companies.

How did it get so late so soon? Its night before its afternoon. December is here before its June. My goodness how the time has flewn. How did it get so late so soon?

When you’re not engaged in the day-to-day struggles that everybody feels, you slowly start losing touch. And I think it’s important for the people in the White House to have a finger on the pulse.

These days, children can text on their cell phone all night long, and no one else is seeing that phone. You don’t know who is calling that child.

Information helps you to see that you’re not alone. That there’s somebody in Mississippi and somebody in Tokyo who all have wept, who’ve all longed and lost, who’ve all been happy. So the library helps you to see, not only that you are not alone, but that you’re not really any different from everyone else.

When you’re young, you look at television and think, there’s a conspiracy. The networks have conspired to dumb us down. But when you get a little older, you realize that’s not true. The networks are in business to give people exactly what they want.

At first when I heard about climate change, I was a climate denier. I didn’t think it was happening. Because if there really was an existential crisis like that, that would threaten our civilisation, we wouldn’t be focusing on anything else. That would be our first priority. So I didn’t understand how that added up.

If you’re in business or politics, you need to have an intense understanding of what’s going on around you.

Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.

September 11 shocked many Americans into an awareness that they had better pay much closer attention to what the U.S. government does in the world and how it is perceived. Many issues have been opened for discussion that were not on the agenda before. That’s all to the good.

He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.

Everyone here has the sense that right now is one of those moments when we are influencing the future.

Many people are alive but don’t touch the miracle of being alive.

The extent of your consciousness is limited only by your ability to love and to embrace with your love the space around you, and all it contains.

A black person grows up in this country – and in many places – knowing that racism will be as familiar as salt to the tongue. Also, it can be as dangerous as too much salt. I think that you must struggle for betterment for yourself and for everyone.

An ignorant person is one who doesn’t know what you have just found out.

I don’t think the intelligence reports are all that hot. Some days I get more out of the New York Times.

When ignorance gets started it knows no bounds.

Educate and inform the whole mass of the people… They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.

The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.

Only that day dawns to which we are awake.

Happiness is within the reach of everyone, rich or poor. Yet comparatively few people are happy. I believe the reason for this is that the majority don’t recognize happiness even when it is within their grasp.

Nine men in ten are would be suicides.

The greatness of man is great in that he knows himself to be wretched. A tree does not know itself to be wretched.

The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted.

Newspapers are the second hand of history. This hand, however, is usually not only of inferior metal to the other hands, it also seldom works properly.

Frankly, I think that the news industry is critically important because it points out things and surfaces truths that can often be uncomfortable. I think that that’s working, and the spotlight has been pointed on things that we have a responsibility to do better, and I accept that.

They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.

I don’t follow politics much.

Today, the news is scandals; that is news, but the many children who don’t have food – that’s not news. This is grave. We can’t rest easy while things are this way.

All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value.

Life tends to be an accumulation of a lot of mundane decisions, which often gets ignored.

This is a wonderful planet, and it is being completely destroyed by people who have too much money and power and no empathy.

Awareness of universals is called conceiving, and a universal of which we are aware is called a concept.

It isn’t what we don’t know that gives us trouble, it’s what we know that ain’t so.

I don’t think there is a single social issue I haven’t spoken on.

I mean Facebook is no longer a company, it’s a country. 2 billion users. It can influence what we think, what we believe, how we vote, what we buy, even how we feel.

The movement of search can only be from the known to the known, and all that the mind can do is to be aware that this movement will never uncover the unknown. Any movement on the part of the known is still within the field of the known.

How much better it would be if all could be more aware of God’s providence and love and express that gratitude to Him.

When I was young, poverty was so common that we didn’t know it had a name.

I have been aware all the time that my peoples, spread far and wide throughout every continent and ocean in the world, were united to support me in the task to which I have now been dedicated with such solemnity.

The answer is, who you are cannot be defined through thinking or mental labels or definitions, because it’s beyond that. It is the very sense of being, or presence, that is there when you become conscious of the present moment. In essence, you and what we call the present moment are, at the deepest level, one.

A newspaper is a device for making the ignorant more ignorant and the crazy crazier.

We all knew this. We all knew that it would take more time than any of us want to dig ourselves out of this hole created by this economic crisis.

Accept the terrible responsibility of life with eyes wide open.

Animation offers a medium of story telling and visual entertainment which can bring pleasure and information to people of all ages everywhere in the world.

Africa is a continent in flames. And deep down, if we really accepted that Africans were equal to us, we would all do more to put the fire out. We’re standing around with watering cans, when what we really need is the fire brigade.

We don’t sell data; we don’t allow anyone to sell data.

When you read, I’m sure you don’t realize that your eyes are going backwards and forwards and to this place and that place. Mine don’t do that.

You know you’re not anonymous on our site. We’re greeting you by name, showing you past purchases, to the degree that you can arrange to have transparency combined with an explanation of what the consumer benefit is.

When you take your attention into the present moment, a certain alertness arises. You become more conscious of what’s around you, but also, strangely, a sense of presence that is both within and without.

Exposure from a young age to the realities of the world is a super-big thing.

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

President Obama seems completely unaware of how many of the policies he is trying to impose have been tried before, in many times and places around the world, and have failed time and again.

What most people know but don’t realize they know is that the world is almost entirely solar-powered already. If the sun wasn’t there, we’d be a frozen ice ball at three degrees Kelvin, and the sun powers the entire system of precipitation. The whole ecosystem is solar-powered.

Every step of life shows much caution is required.

Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.