Luck is earned. Luck is working so hard at your craft, service or enterprise that sooner or later you get a break.

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.

I smile, she blushes.I smirk, she slaps me on the arm, softly.I breathe, because it's easy around her.

To the people who are upset about their hard-earned tax money going to things they don’t like: welcome to the f*cking club. Reimburse me for the Iraq war and oil subsidies, and diaphragms are on me!

If U.S. Grant had been leading a team of baseball players, they'd have second guessed him all the way to the doorknob of the Appomattox Courthouse.

The small town smart set is deadly serious about its smartness.

If you love something - and there are things that I love - you do want more and more and more of it, but that's not the way to produce good work.

Misery, mutilation, destruction, terror, starvation and death characterize the process of war and form a principal part of the product.

The bulldozer and not the atomic bomb may turn out to be the most destructive invention of the 20th century.

I'm a lager drinker. I'm quite a stupid lager drinker. I do like my lager and mashed potatoes.

Happiness may well consist primarily of an attitude toward time.