If you can’t discover what’s keeping you in, the will to get out soon becomes confused and ineffectual - "Ishmael

If the world is saved, it will not be saved by old minds with new programs but by new minds with no programs at all.

Indigenous people believe that Man belongs to the World; civilized people believe that the World belongs to Man.

The premise of the Taker story is 'the world belongs to man'. … The premise of the Leaver story is 'man belongs to the world'.

The world of the Takers is one vast prison, and except for a handful of Leavers scattered across the world, the entire human race is now inside that prison.

Don't try to drive the homeless into places we find suitable. Help them survive in places they find suitable.

There is no one right way to live.

[A]ny species that exempts itself from the rules of competition ends up destroying the community in order to support its own expansion.

Don't wait. Where do you expect to get by waiting? Doing is what teaches you. Doing is what leads to inspiration. Doing is what generates ideas. Nothing else, and nothing less.

No one species shall make the life of the world its own.' … That's one expression of the law. Here's another: 'The world was not made for any one species.

The world must live. We are only one species among billions. The gods don't love us any more than they love spiders or bears or whales or water lilies.

You can walk away and say "We don't need this." but something in your eyes says "We can beat this.

I spend a lot of time looking up.

I feel like what I owe my audience is what I'm most passionate about.

They [in the New York Times] are really, really bad people. The largest shareholder in the Times is Carlos Slim.

I don't believe in God, but I do believe in that chaotic reality, and also this: that none of us knows anything about anything. Period.

Poor is the nation that has no heroes, but poorer still is the nation that having heroes, fails to remember and honor them.

I wish that they could have more freedoms to be able to come and play. I know that the only way that they can get out is by, you know, defecting to another country or whatever, or getting on a boat

Shift your awareness.

What caused the economic collapse 2008? It was the subprime mortgage crisis.

Do not lose joy in life as you grow old in years. Let not your 'joie de vivre be crushed under the weight of years.