I want New Story education to be skilling human beings and young people to provide basic human needs. Technology and all other things are icing on the cake.

We have to shift our attitude of ownership of nature to relationship with nature. The moment you change from ownership to relationship, you create a sense of the sacred.

The way to healthy living is to shift from quantitative economic growth to quality of life, food, water and air - to shift from craving to contentment and from greed to gratitude

Lead me from death to life, from falsehood to truth; Lead me from despair to hope, from fear to trust; Lead me from hate to love, from war to peace; Let peace fill our heart, our world, our universe

We depend on the gifts of nature, but these gifts must be received with gratitude and not exploited or abused

Without the land, the rivers, the oceans, the forests, the sunshine, the minerals and thousands of natural resources we would have no economy whatsoever

Economy without ecology means managing the human nature relationship without knowing the delicate balance between humankind and the natural world

Happiness is possible only when we are kind to others and contented within.

How much I can learn from a tree! The tree is my church, the tree is my temple, the tree is my mantra, the tree is my poem and my prayer.

What we call 'economic growth' is in fact a growth in waste and a decline in the health of natural habitat

Human happiness, true prosperity and joyful living can only emerge from a life of elegant simplicity, embedded in the arts and crafts.

Candide, who trembled like a philosopher, hid himself as well as he could during this heroic butchery.

Fate is an obligation I don't understand--the reasons that random beast passed over her deserving soul in favor of mine.

Goat face is a horrible insult. My face is practically perfect in every way. In fact, from now on I demand to be called Beautiful Bryan.

That's what I want. Honest loyalty.

Surely all God's people, however serious or savage, great or small, like to play.

There are no ugly questions except those clothed in condescension.

A lesser moustache, under the impact of that quick, agonised expulsion of breath, would have worked loose at the roots.

Your soul existed before your birth, your soul will exist after your death.

Few men are so obstinate in their atheism, that a pressing danger will not compel them to acknowledgment of a divine power.

Over the years I've studied the habits of golfers. I know what to look for. Watch their eyes. Fear shows up when there is an enlargement of the pupils. Big pupils lead to big scores.