The World Development Movement, to take just one example, is doing good work. Some political parties are, too.

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.

When you don't change, history repeats itself. Then you have to decide if changing is for the best, or you keep seeing repeats because you're doing something right.

I am enormously wise and abysmally ignorant

Nothing is discussed more and practiced less than prayer.

But I don't have anything left inside of me to figure out where I fit in or what I want. If I want anything, it's to know what's possible to want.

I think God has plans for everyone, and I'm just thankful this is his plan for me.

I am one of the people who love the why of things.

I've said this before, and I say it again. Bagels can be an enormous power for good or for evil. It is up to us to decide how we will use them.

Mistakes are their own instructors

I didn't really [seriously] go out with any guys until I was 18 and met my ex-fiancé, Michael Weatherly.

Families survive, one way or another. You have a tie, a connection that exists long after death, through many lifetimes.