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.

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.

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

Only caring individuals can restore the places we inhabit. The 'simple act of planting a tree' not only restores the places we live, but makes us whole and powerful again.

Grief, no matter how you try to cater to its wail, has a way of fading away.

How I wish that somewhere there existed an island for those who are wise and of good will.

There are so many women who I deal with, on a daily basis, that I don't feel like I've ever been stymied or struggled because I'm a woman.

It is not the truth that a man possesses, or believes that he possesses, but the earnest effort which he puts forward to reach the truth, which constitutes the worth of a man

No one who claims this to be a small world has ever flown across the Pacific.

I never have wit until I am below stairs. [Fr., Je n'ai jamais d'esprit qu'au bas de l'escalier.]

Confess your sins to the Lord and you will be forgiven; confess them to man and you will be laughed at.

Everybody knows that I am one of the greatest fighters of all time and I would beat all those guys.

If we repent, God always recycles our mistakes.

If you gave me $100 billion and said take away the soft drink leadership of Coca-Cola in the world, I'd give it back to you and say it can't be done.