In short, industrialism is over.

Good management is the art of making problems so interesting and their solutions so constructive that everyone wants to get to work and deal with them.

Most floods are caused by man, not weather; deforestation, levee construction, erosion, and overgrazing all result in the loss of ecosystem services.

All is connected ... no one thing can change by itself.

What I see everywhere in the world are ordinary people willing to confront despair, power, and incalculable odds in order to restore some semblance of grace, justice, and beauty to this world.

Business is the only mechanism on the planet today powerful enough to produce the changes necessary to reverse global environments and social degradation.

The future belongs to those who understand that doing more with less is compassionate, prosperous, and enduring, and thus more intelligent, even competitive.

The first rule of sustainability is to align with natural forces, or at least not try to defy them

Always leave enough time in your life to do something that makes you happy, satisfied, even joyous. That has more of an effect on economic well-being than any other single factor.

Don't be put off by people who know what is not possible. Do what needs to be done, and check to see if it was impossible only after you are done.

The most unrealistic person in the world is the cynic, not the dreamer.

Love must not entreat, ' she added, 'or demand. Love must have the strength to become certain within itself. Then it ceases merely to be attracted and begins to attract.

Hearts everywhere bear scars of one form of hurt or the other, and it is necessary to keep this in mind when trying to understand why a person is the way he or she is.

Books and knowledge are the two most powerful drugs.

You can't muffle a real good time.

We are not voting for health care if we do not resolve this language on public funding for abortion - no public funding for abortion.

The purified righteous man has become a coin of the Lord, and has the impress of his King stamped upon him.

It is today that we create the world of the future.

I just can't perform well unless I'm wearing jeans.

Progress! Progress through everybody dying and their kids eventually not caring who their parents hated!

A parent's best intentions are no substitute for attention.