If there is to be an ecologically sound society, it will have to come the grass roots up, not from the top down.

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.

Helping other people can be a cure not just for those who are in need, but for your soul as well.

What I want to do is, I want to put together a nice list of those guys who I really did admire when I was growing up, listening to names like Lord Finesse.

The considerations of a corporation, especially now, have nothing to do with art or music.

Hopeless cases: Executives who assert themselves by saying No when they should say Yes.

TV serves us most usefully when presenting junk-entertainment; it serves us most ill when it co-opts serious modes of discourse - news, politics, science, education, commerce, religion.

Look, when I look back, from 20 onwards, I was actually having a pretty good time, I have to say.

There's not a conspiracy to prevent really good writing from being found You have to have the humility to fail over and over and over.

I shall not make an argument ad hominem. My argument is ad bullshitem.

Automate the headlights so drivers can't forget to turn them on in low visibility.

There are a lot of good things about being famous but there are a few not so good things too