Only after people express their anger and sadness over the broken dreams of material prosperity will they turn to the task of building a sustainable economy.

Compassion will no longer be seen as a spiritual luxury for a contemplative few; rather it will be viewed as a social necessity for the entire human family.

We live almost completely immersed in a socially constructed reality that so fully absorbs our energy and attention that virtually none remains to experience the wonder of our existence.

The essence of voluntary simplicity is living in a way what is outwardly simple and inwardly rich.

Simplicity means to choose ways of living that touch the Earth more lightly and that reduce our ecological footprint.

In a world where nearly one billion people live near the edge of physical survival the relevance of intentional simplicity by the more affluent people of the world cannot be over estimated.

Simplicity means to feel such a sense of kinship with others that we choose to live simply so that others may simply live.

Poverty is mean and degrading to the human spirit, whereas a life of conscious simplicity can have both a beauty and a functional integrity that elevates the human spirit.

We are the leaders that we have been waiting for. We are the social innovators and entrepreneurs that we have been seeking.

The character of a whole society is the cumulative result of countless small actions, day in and day out, of millions of persons.

I consciously started to live simply when I started to become conscious.

Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success.

I am not a has-been. I am a will be.

Confidence is the invisible cement that binds a team together.

Sooner or later, all the peoples of the world will have to discover a way to live together in peace, and thereby transform this pending cosmic elegy into a creative psalm of brotherhood.

We must spread our principles, not with words but with deeds, for this is the most popular, the most potent, and the most irresistible form of propaganda.

I had to gain experience as I did not have a technical education.

I love science fiction.

We live in a bizarre world - there are cameras in our house!

Medicine is the means by which we poor feeble creatures try to keep from dying or aching.

She was right about something else too," Dimitri said after a long pause.... "That I do still love you.