The destruction of aquatic ecosystem health, and the increasing water scarcity, are in my opinion the most pressing environmental problems facing human kind.

Water is being depleted many, many times faster than nature can replenish it.

Do not listen to those who say there is nothing you can do to the very real and large social and environmental issues of our time.

There is simply no way to overstate the water crisis of the planet today.

Unlimited growth assumes unlimited resources, and this is the genesis of Ecocide.

Everything is now for sale. Even those areas of life that we once considered sacred like health and education, food and water and air and seeds and genes and a heritage. It is all now for sale.

No piecemeal solution is going to prevent the collapse of whole societies and ecosystems ... a radical re-thinking of our values, priorities and political systems is urgent.

The World Has Divided into Rich and Poor as at No Time in History

Never try to discourage thinking, for you are sure to succeed.

The way to develop self-confidence is to do the thing you fear and get a record of successful experiences behind you.

I hate failure and that divorce was a Number One failure in my eyes. It was the worst period of my life. Neither Desi nor I have been the same since, physically or mentally.

If you spend five minutes with me or watch me try to balance my checkbook, you can only imagine the disaster I would make of anyone's legal issues.

There is some music that's truly dark, in that it's dark in terms of hopeless. But then again, the act of hope is just making the work of art.

I don't license everywhere. I take care of my name.

I spent most of the early years of my walk with God focused on what was wrong with me. Most of us probably do that, hoping to change ourselves.

Making love to Aurelia was like rummaging through a card catalog in a deserted library, searching for one very obscure, little-read entry on Hungarian poetry.

I hate gold. I'm sort of a sterling-silver guy.

Where there's a will - there's a relative!