There is no visible sign that the current politicians in the US are willing to see the need for change.

If there is to be a human future, we must bring ourselves into balanced relationship with one another and the Earth.

The professional study of economics has become ideological brainwashing. It is a defense of the excesses of the capitalist system.

Wall Street sees a social fabric or social contract as inefficiencies, which need to be removed.

In the US, most progressives start to see the differences between internationalism and economic globalization.

Capitalism and the market are presented as synonymous, but they are not. Capitalism is both the enemy of the market and democracy.

More humane societies are usually smaller, like the Scandinavian countries and Holland, where it is much easier to reach consensus and cooperation.

Money is a mechanism for control.

As long as you have a system that is based on the rational that if you are making money you are thereby making a contribution to society, these financial rogue practices will continue.

If you look internationally over the last 50 years there have been improvements in the third world, but in the last 20 years the reverse has happened, with debt crises and increased poverty.

We can have democracy and a prosperous, just, and sustainable human future. Or we can have corporate rule. We cannot have both.

Being your true self can only come from separating your thinking from crowd mentality.

We rely too much on the people we share our lives with. We hold them responsible for things they are not even aware of. We start blaming them.

From yon blue heaven above us bent, The grand old gardener and his wife Smile at the claims of long descent.

Ready writing makes not good writing, but good writing brings on ready writing.

I think that every man is afraid of his wife.

A good comedy’s very hard to make, so good comic writing I really enjoy.

My record company had to beg me to stop filmin' music videos in the projects. No matter what the song was about, I had 'em out there.

I can sit and dissect for hours, and then write 50 songs about. I always find that inspiring.

Americans should know the universe itself as a road, as many roads, as roads for traveling souls.