It takes a good crisis to get us going. When we feel fear and we fear loss we are capable of quite extraordinary things.

We can choose this moment of crisis to ask and answer the big questions of society's evolution — like, what do we want to be when we grow up?

If you want to change the world, change it through the market

Our system - of debt-fueled economic growth, of ineffective democracy, of overloading planet Earth - is eating itself alive.

Thanks to those pesky laws of physics, when things aren't sustainable, they stop.

The Earth doesn't care what we need; Mother Nature doesn't negotiate.

The four words that will define this century: The Earth is full.

If the Devil says you cannot pray when you are angry, tell him it is none of his business, and pray until that species of insanity is dispelled and serenity is restored to the mind. (p. 175)

Ironically, parenting is a shame and judgment minefield precisely because most of us are wading through uncertainty and self-doubt when it comes to raising our children.

Ya gotta think positive.

I never had any idea that I would have a career quite honestly. You never really have any idea what is going to happen. You have an idea of what you would like to happen.

It's not possible for two countries to be the leading dominant political power at the same time.

[Nutrition] is a huge piece of the puzzle. It's not just about working hard and being physical. It's about being smart and mindful of what's going in and out of our bodies.

Lies circle the earth while Truth is still trying to put on its shoes.

We know less when we erroneously think we know than when we recognize that we don't.

Employees pay the highest percentage of taxes. Big business and investors pay the least.

If there is not the war, you don't get the great general; if there is not a great occasion, you don't get a great statesman; if Lincoln had lived in a time of peace, no one would have known his name.