Markets cant think about anything beyond about three months. This is very long-term for markets, which is why the important things in life have got to be taken outside of the marketplace.

What I worry about is climate change, because that would have untold effects that we can't even measure yet.

There is no degree of human suffering which in and of itself is going to bring about change. Only organisation can change things.

If the economy becomes disembodied from society it can only lead to disaster.

As the rich consume more and more, they are clearly not going to want to downgrade their own status.

This erosion of the middle class is happening all over the place. The opening of a wider gap between rich and poor is always accompanied by such a process.

We have the most crude accounting tools. It's tragic because our accounts and our national arithmetic doesn't tell us the things that we need to know.

The Sierra Club in the United States has now really come out for population control and reduction.

I used to work a lot on food issues and every time somebody predicted that production would be inadequate they got egg on their face a year or two later.

We're trying to run a 21st century society and economy with 19th century Darwinian, competitive, crude ideas.

If you cut down a forest, it doesn't matter how many sawmills you have if there are no more trees.

Those people who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.

You are not attracting the wrong people, you are simply accepting them. Saying ‘No’ frees you up so you can say ‘Yes’ when you truly want to.

You might be able to kiss like a rock star, but you’ve got to get over this macho trip. You don’t own me.

Everything's about my personal entertainment. The world is my stage. Keep it up- you're becoming a star performer in the show.

President Barack Obama Invokes Iraq War Authorization in Syria

Alcoholic drinks, rightly used, are good for body and soul alike, but as a restorative of both there is nothing like brandy.

If you make meaning, you'll make money.

Our future is like that of the passengers on a small pleasure boat sailing quietly above the Niagara Falls, not knowing that the engines are about to fail.

As a person, I believe that I am sensitive, which helped me be the artist I am.

[T]hey stretch you on a table. Then they bid you close your eyelids, And they mask you with a napkin, And the anæsthetic reaches Hot and subtle through your being.