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

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

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.

A real dreamer must have a mutual trust with time.

Our systems, perhaps, are nothing more than an unconscious apology for our faults, a gigantic scaffolding whose object is to hide from us our favorite sin

Humor can be one of our best survival tools.

The gift of loneliness is sometimes a radical vision of society or one's people that has not previously been taken into account.

Can we ever really know anyone well? Lets just say we often found ourselves in each others company and neither of us minded.

You never work for someone else. The truth is someone is paying you to work for yourself.

Now life is imitating art.

The relationship between press and politician - protected by the Constitution and designed to be happily adversarial - becomes sour, raw and confrontational.

Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't after you.

I learned over the years never to correct a fool or he will hate you; correct a wise man, and he will appreciate you.