A really failing society has a lot of rules (or laws).

Though the problems of the world are increasingly complex, the solutions remain embarrassingly simple.

I teach self-reliance, the world's most subversive practice. I teach people how to grow their own food, which is shockingly subversive. So, yes, it’s seditious. But it’s peaceful sedition.

The only ethical decision is to take responsibility for our own existence and that of our children.

We're only truly secure when we can look out our kitchen window and see our food growing and our friends working nearby.

Women are the holders of all knowledge, everything a man knows he stole from a woman.

The American lawn uses more resources than any other agricultural industry in the world. It uses more phosphates than India and puts on more poisons than any other form of agriculture.

If you only do one thing, collect rainwater.

You don’t have a snail problem, you have a duck deficiency.

We are surrounded by insurmountable opportunities

Wealth is a deep understanding of the natural world.

Every cloud has a silver lining. The edge of light that shines brightest holds a sliver of hope for a bright today & an even better tomorrow.

I preferred a hard truth to a well-meant lie.

I grew up in a neighborhood in Baltimore that was like a war zone, so I never learned to trust that there were people who could help me.

But when I play, I still practice hard and focus on my game.

I love action shows. I love drama. There's no one type of thing. Television has gotten so good, and there's so much to do.

I save money when I'm working so that I never have to take a role simply to pay the bills.

And don’t you say that it is very kind and obliging of him, sir, like Jessamy, because if you don’t like a person, you don’t wish to be obliged to him!

My nickname is Dickie Jukebox.

History teaches us hope.

Rich honesty dwells like a miser, Sir, in a poor house; as your pearl in your foul oyster.