Materialism is toxic to happiness, and we are losing our connection to the natural world.

Value change can change our pathetic capitulation to consumerism, which will help us psychologically as well as environmentally.

Poverty, in the end, is a state of dispossession and deprivation in which people are not only deprived of their income, but also of opportunity, empowerment and, most important, dignity.

The pattern is clear: if we could speed up time, it would seem as if the global economy is crashing against the earth - the Great Collision.

Many people are living life by default.

All I know of heaven and all I know of death is in this park: an elegant universe in ceaseless motion, teeming with ruined ruins and screaming children.

Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for being no longer in a position to give bad examples.

If I go to heaven I want to take my reason with me.

I suspect that LaGuardia is an elaborate prank, and New York has a real airport nearby that only locals know about.

The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad.

The great gift of the human imagination is that it has no limits or ending.

Personally, I feel that it is the most contemptible thing for a politician to seek personal gains from politics.

Healing comes from taking responsibility: to realize that it is you - and no one else - that creates your thoughts, your feelings, and your actions.

You must wanna be in the Guinness Book of World Records as the dumbest.