We are the leaders that we have been waiting for. We are the social innovators and entrepreneurs that we have been seeking.

Compassion will no longer be seen as a spiritual luxury for a contemplative few; rather it will be viewed as a social necessity for the entire human family.

We live almost completely immersed in a socially constructed reality that so fully absorbs our energy and attention that virtually none remains to experience the wonder of our existence.

The essence of voluntary simplicity is living in a way what is outwardly simple and inwardly rich.

Simplicity means to choose ways of living that touch the Earth more lightly and that reduce our ecological footprint.

In a world where nearly one billion people live near the edge of physical survival the relevance of intentional simplicity by the more affluent people of the world cannot be over estimated.

Simplicity means to feel such a sense of kinship with others that we choose to live simply so that others may simply live.

Poverty is mean and degrading to the human spirit, whereas a life of conscious simplicity can have both a beauty and a functional integrity that elevates the human spirit.

Only after people express their anger and sadness over the broken dreams of material prosperity will they turn to the task of building a sustainable economy.

The character of a whole society is the cumulative result of countless small actions, day in and day out, of millions of persons.

I consciously started to live simply when I started to become conscious.

While amidst the crowd and seeking quieteness in another zone you can still get away from them by homing in on matters within.

From a leadership perspective, the liking has to be qualified and be able to garner respect.

Most people can’t seem to see the relationship between truth, honesty and national development.

A man is as good as he has to be, and a woman as bad as she dares.

No resource will flourish if managed by government.

That's something that I think as a songwriter you have to ask yourself - why you're doing it. The world certainly doesn't need more songs. Are you doing it just for your ego?

The syntactic component of a grammar must specify, for each sentence, a deep structure that determines its semantic interpretationand a surface structure that determines its phonetic interpretation.

No one in Washington realizes you can't borrow money endlessly.

From my perspective, we as a nation need to make policy a priority and drive the politics as a result of good policy.

Culture is not just an ornament; it is the expression of a nation's character, and at the same time it is a powerful instrument to mould character. The end of culture is right living.