Philosopher and visionary R. Buckminster Fuller invited us to see ourselves as passengers together on “Spaceship Earth,” living not for ourselves alone, but for the sake of one another. He believed that our choices and our ideas shape the future in ways we may never fully see.

There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly.

Integrity is the essence of everything successful.

Don’t fight forces; use them.

Controlled time is our true wealth.

God is a verb.

Ideas are easy to come by; reduction to practice is an arduous but inspirationally rewarding matter.

Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable.

Sometimes I think we’re alone. Sometimes I think we’re not. In either case, the thought is staggering.

Our power is in our ability to decide.

Real wealth is ideas plus energy.

So I vowed to keep myself alive, but only if I would never use me again for just me. Each one of us is born of two, and we really belong to each other.

If humanity does not opt for integrity, we are through completely. It is absolutely touch and go. Each one of us could make the difference.

I’m not a genius. I’m just a tremendous bundle of experience.

Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment.

Dare to be naive.

Every child is born a genius.

I am a passenger on Spaceship Earth. Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth

Of all the disorder-to-order converters, the human mind is by far the most impressive.

The minute you choose to do what you really want to do, it’s a different kind of life.