Much better to do fewer things and have time to make the most of them.

The great benefit of slowing down is reclaiming the time and tranquility to make meaningful connections--with people, with culture, with work, with nature, with our own bodies and minds

By slowing down at the right moments, people find that they do everything better: They eat better; they make love better; they exercise better; they work better; they live better.

I love all this stuff. I look at all the gadgets that come out and I think, ‘Oh, this fix works for me. But the rest don’t.’ I’m not genuflecting in front of the God of Newness.

Fast isn't turning us into Masters of the Universe, It's turning us into Cheech and Chong.

The time has come to challenge our obsession with doing everything more quickly.

I could be working 300 hours a week. I just say no. The power of slow is the power of no. I can’t go to every party I get invited to. I can’t do every work thing.

I always felt through writing that I wanted to rotate the world slightly.

Aficionados of Slow design and Slow fashion use ethical and green materials to make objects - furniture, clothes, jewellery - that lift the spirit and last a lifetime rather than one catwalk season.

He was fast becoming the excitement of a tomorrow I never used to look forward to.

Visible obstacles shine a light on hidden opportunities.

I claim not to have controlled events but confess plainly that events have controlled me.

You just have to find that thing that's special about you that distinguishes you from all the others, and through true talent, hard work, and passion, anything can happen.

A marriage contract to me is as binding as any in business, and I have always believed in sticking to an agreement.

People are not very pro-active in general, I think, because we are too busy rushing blindly towards our own goals.

We will hang the capitalists with the rope that they sell us.

When a sincere woman begins to dance, the seven heavens, the earth, and all creatures begin to dance.

Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty; power is ever stealing from the many to the few.

I love to be envied, and would not marry a wife that I alone could love; loving alone is as dull as eating alone.