Capitalism, as practiced, is a financially profitable, non-sustainable aberration in human development.

Good management is the art of making problems so interesting and their solutions so constructive that everyone wants to get to work and deal with them.

Most floods are caused by man, not weather; deforestation, levee construction, erosion, and overgrazing all result in the loss of ecosystem services.

All is connected ... no one thing can change by itself.

What I see everywhere in the world are ordinary people willing to confront despair, power, and incalculable odds in order to restore some semblance of grace, justice, and beauty to this world.

Business is the only mechanism on the planet today powerful enough to produce the changes necessary to reverse global environments and social degradation.

The future belongs to those who understand that doing more with less is compassionate, prosperous, and enduring, and thus more intelligent, even competitive.

The first rule of sustainability is to align with natural forces, or at least not try to defy them

Always leave enough time in your life to do something that makes you happy, satisfied, even joyous. That has more of an effect on economic well-being than any other single factor.

Don't be put off by people who know what is not possible. Do what needs to be done, and check to see if it was impossible only after you are done.

The most unrealistic person in the world is the cynic, not the dreamer.

Some boats are rotten in the ports

Imperceptibly, the developed world's manufacturing base was gradually eroding and being replaced by securitized finance that destroyed itself and nearly its economies in 2008.

Tabloids can be fun. I see stuff sometimes and have a good laugh.

I'm a humanist. I'm neither one side nor the other.

I think Russian people are learning that democracy is not an alien thing; it's not a western invention.

I think what a lot of action movies lose these days, especially the ones that deal with fantasy, is you stop caring at some point because you've lost human scale.

World population needs to be decreased by 50%

I do recognize that India has to be the center, the hub of activity as far as the knowledge economy is concerned.

Seems to be a deep instinct in human beings for making everything compulsory that isn't forbidden.

I don't know what to believe in the mainstream media anymore. My instinct is to not believe any of it, and it's their fault.