The World Bank is now the biggest culprit in the debt crisis.

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.

You don't need to look at the beauty to feel the love.

Measurements is your saving grace if you want to raise steam.

It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.

You have to train smart. There is always a risk of over-training or training beyond what your body is able to recover from, and that leads to injuries.

WWII was, without exaggeration, the biggest event in all of human history, and it is still within living memory.

Her lips tarried at mine. Baiting each other with the warmth of our breath, barely grazing, detouring, then connecting.

The concept of time shuts off eternity.

The power of Open Source is the power of the people. The people rule.

Schizophrenia is the name for a condition that most psychiatrists ascribe to patients they call schizophrenic.

For someone like me and my generation, you had to speak French to be sophisticated, you had to be lighter-skinned.