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

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.

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.

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

When we create an environment where our spirit is in sync with the Divine Spirit, then we should be on the lookout for good, positive, helpful thoughts and ideas from a source beyond ourselves. p23.

When the mind has once begun to yield to the weakness of superstition, trifles impress it with the force of conviction.

The backbone of the preaching of Christ is a conviction of the truth of Christ.

Time erases both the best and the worst of us.

And how is clarity to be achieved? Mainly by taking trouble and by writing to serve people rather than to impress them.

I want to invest in hard-working families.

The world suffers nothing from Christians but hates them because they reject its pleasures.

You cannot build performance on weaknesses. You can build only on strengths.

There are more lines formed than things worth waiting for.

I feel like everyone's starting to isolate, and that proves itself in a big context like Brexit, and Donald Trump potentially, and putting walls up and stopping people coming in.