I would say 90 percent of my mail and phone calls are from people who want some kind of help or succor or commitment from me to do something.

I think the '60s were an extraordinary time. I feel bad for the kids today who missed this wonderful confluence, which was simultaneously a confluence of the global and the mythological.

The self is just not a worthy enough vehicle to worship.

Interdependence is a fact, it's not an opinion.

Business is a subset of the environment, not the other way around. You can't have a healthy economy, you can't have a healthy anything in a degraded environment.

Everyone knows that our current system is kind of like legalized prostitution. The corporate sector completely controls the civic sector.

When I got to Grinnell College, I was part of the black turtleneck sweater and Camel cigarette crowd of poets and writers.

The body is an inviolable limit. And you have to really hurt it before you know that.

Any political agenda and organization which doesn't begin with personal responsibility is just half the argument. It's just not going to succeed.

Money is a way of creating scarcity.

Habitat for wildlife is continually shrinking - I can at least provide a way station.

But some climbs you have to make alone.

Find time to admire and appreciate the glittering lights on snowflakes.

Find the right balance in life. Man is body... mind... spirit. Give the right amount of attention to each.

Vanity breeds insanity

Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war.

The dash helps to indicate that the two thoughts are intimately related, and it's less stodgy than a semicolon, which would have performed the same function (and who talks in semicolons?).

Today is the first day of the rest of your life. And if that doesn't work out for you, Tomorrow is the first day of the rest of your life.

Read, but not to remember everything. Read because that 1% that you remember has the potential to change your life.

Security isn't what I hunger for. I hunger for change. I hunger for connection.

The simple opposition between the people and big business has disappeared because the people themselves have become so deeply involved in big business.