I'm a radical reformist, because between where we are and where I want to go there's a great deal of work, and I won't see the end of this.

What I worry about is climate change, because that would have untold effects that we can't even measure yet.

There is no degree of human suffering which in and of itself is going to bring about change. Only organisation can change things.

If the economy becomes disembodied from society it can only lead to disaster.

As the rich consume more and more, they are clearly not going to want to downgrade their own status.

This erosion of the middle class is happening all over the place. The opening of a wider gap between rich and poor is always accompanied by such a process.

We have the most crude accounting tools. It's tragic because our accounts and our national arithmetic doesn't tell us the things that we need to know.

The Sierra Club in the United States has now really come out for population control and reduction.

I used to work a lot on food issues and every time somebody predicted that production would be inadequate they got egg on their face a year or two later.

We're trying to run a 21st century society and economy with 19th century Darwinian, competitive, crude ideas.

If you cut down a forest, it doesn't matter how many sawmills you have if there are no more trees.

There's only one place I want to go and it's to all the places I've never been.

God’s judgment echoes the sound of hoofbeats, but God’s love quietly convicts.

If people who were actually born had to prove they were worthy enough to live in America, this would be a much less populated country.

Professional happiness is the tonic of longevity.

For 35 years I was a writer. I wrote a lot of jokes. Some of them weren’t funny. Some of them weren’t appropriate. Some of them were downright offensive. I understand that.

I feel this pang of regret whenever I watch sport; this sense that I will never play a big match again.

Herein is not only a great vanity, but a great contempt of God's good gifts, that the sweetness of man's breath, being a good gift of God, should be willfully corrupted by this stinking smoke.

You must look into people, as well as at them.

Public education grants secular worldviews an exclusive monopoly in the classroom.

I have had some trouble in regarding evil as having been intended by infinite Goodness.