It is interesting to note that the 200 richest people have more assets than the 2 billion poorest.

If there is to be a human future, we must bring ourselves into balanced relationship with one another and the Earth.

The professional study of economics has become ideological brainwashing. It is a defense of the excesses of the capitalist system.

Wall Street sees a social fabric or social contract as inefficiencies, which need to be removed.

In the US, most progressives start to see the differences between internationalism and economic globalization.

Capitalism and the market are presented as synonymous, but they are not. Capitalism is both the enemy of the market and democracy.

More humane societies are usually smaller, like the Scandinavian countries and Holland, where it is much easier to reach consensus and cooperation.

Money is a mechanism for control.

As long as you have a system that is based on the rational that if you are making money you are thereby making a contribution to society, these financial rogue practices will continue.

If you look internationally over the last 50 years there have been improvements in the third world, but in the last 20 years the reverse has happened, with debt crises and increased poverty.

We can have democracy and a prosperous, just, and sustainable human future. Or we can have corporate rule. We cannot have both.

Every day has 1440 minutes. Each minute is an opportunity to be unhappy or to Rejoice, to waste or to Value Life, or to just exist or Make a Difference.

On the morning of the exorcism, I stayed home from school.

A word spoken in good season how good it is!

Trouble is just like love, after all; it comes in unannounced and takes over before you've had a chance to reconsider, or even to think.

Jane Eyre "I desired more...than was within my reach. Who blames me? Many call me discontented. I couldn't help it: the restlessness is in my nature; it agitated me to pain sometimes.

I'd like to make music for a long time, and all different types of music. Maybe I'll start my own label to get other artists off the ground.

[T]hat I could find company and consolation and hope in an object pulled almost at random from a bookshelf--felt akin to an instance of religious grace.

Many things I might not write today because I no longer believe them, but I wouldn't change them, since I believed them at the time.

When [man] is happy he takes his happiness as it comes and doesn't analyze it, just as if happiness were his right.

I really don't worry about what people say or what they have to say or what they think - it just doesn't matter.