The time has come to challenge our obsession with doing everything more quickly.

The great benefit of slowing down is reclaiming the time and tranquility to make meaningful connections--with people, with culture, with work, with nature, with our own bodies and minds

By slowing down at the right moments, people find that they do everything better: They eat better; they make love better; they exercise better; they work better; they live better.

I love all this stuff. I look at all the gadgets that come out and I think, ‘Oh, this fix works for me. But the rest don’t.’ I’m not genuflecting in front of the God of Newness.

Fast isn't turning us into Masters of the Universe, It's turning us into Cheech and Chong.

Much better to do fewer things and have time to make the most of them.

I could be working 300 hours a week. I just say no. The power of slow is the power of no. I can’t go to every party I get invited to. I can’t do every work thing.

I always felt through writing that I wanted to rotate the world slightly.

Aficionados of Slow design and Slow fashion use ethical and green materials to make objects - furniture, clothes, jewellery - that lift the spirit and last a lifetime rather than one catwalk season.

Marriage is the commodification of affection, copulation, and, reproduction.

I always told my dad I'd play professional football.

We all have to die some day, if we live long enough.

I'm against war. Always have been, always will be. And everything connected with it, is anathema to me. I have never considered it necessary.

The existence of the Bible, as a book for the people, is the greatest benefit which the human race has ever experienced. Every attempt to belittle it is a crime against humanity.

When you don't pray, the devil rides ya when ya sleep

Only eyes washed by tears can see clearly.

To me, it's like happiness is about happiness, but happiness is a fight.

It is the worst atrocity underway [in Rwanda]. But it's barely in the media, and people just don't know about it. And that's quite generally true.

My mother never put an emphasis on looks. She let us grow up on our own time line. She never forced any beauty regimen into my world.