Politicians are simply reflections of the public.

If your life's work can be accomplished in your lifetime, you're not thinking big enough.

Since nature has the most sustainable ecosystem and since ultimately agriculture comes out of nature, our standard for a sustainable world should be nature's own ecosystem.

Instead of trying to understand agriculture in its own terms, acknowledge that agriculture ultimately comes out of nature. Right now agriculture is the No. 1 threat to biodiversity on the planet.

The agriculture we seek will act like an ecosystem, feature material recycling and run on the contemporary sunlight of our star.

If we don't get sustainability right in agriculture first, it won't happen anywhere.

We the people, so to speak, need to realize that if we can keep ourselves fed, we might get through this long dark tunnel of power down, and mitigate the consequences of CO2.

Your calling is concealed in you and has to be discovered by you alone

Treating HIV/AIDS is a lifelong commitment that demands strict adherence to drug protocols, consistent care, and a trusting relationship with health care providers.

Confidence... thrives on honesty, on honor, on the sacredness of obligations, on faithful protection and on unselfish performance. Without them it cannot live.

Conquer evil people by gentle kindness, and make zealous people wonder at your goodness. Put the lover of legality to shame by your compassion.

He that forgets his friend is ungrateful to him; but he that forgets his Saviour is unmerciful to himself.

When "I" and "You" are absent, I've no idea if this is a mosque, synagogue, church or temple

It's terrible. How can we tell the world who the real Michael Jackson is?

You can't hide behind race any more. You can't hide behind class structure any more. You can't hide behind family. You need to produce.

I'm constantly trying to figure out how to crack that mystery; how to make a novel that has a sense of immediacy of a short story. I try to do that and I'll try it again, but I'll never get it.

Obviously you take any creative people and put them in a room and you're going to get clashes, you're going to get friction.