Mother's milk would be banned by the food safety laws of industrialized nations if it were sold as a packaged good.

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.

Generally speaking, we are w-a-y too hard on ourselves! I used to place enough pressure on myself to crush an elephant!

Someone asked me, 'How do you write a book?' I said, 'I live with a pen in one hand.

Americans think Soviets are so grim. I want them to see that they can smile.

Science not only purifies the religious impulse of the dross of its anthropomorphism but also contributes to a religious spiritualization of our understanding of life.

You only can hurt me if I don't know who I am.

[Pablo Escobar] always told me that the day he used the phone would be his last day, something I had very clear while I was talking to him.

If you take something like the slave-auction sketch, the warmth of the light gives it a crisp 12 Years a Slave look. And your eye tells your brain, "I should be taking this seriously."

We've got to decide that we want to live in a world that is sane and happy and healthy, and that everyone deserves that.

I never calculate. That is why those who do, calculate so much less accurately than I.

When the fruit appears the blossom drops off. Love of God is the fruit, and rituals are the blossom.