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

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.

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

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

All the new thinking is about loss. In this it resembles all the old thinking

For happiness one needs security, but joy can spring like a flower even from the cliffs of despair.

As love, if love be perfect, casts out fear, so hate, if hate be perfect, casts out fear.

Commit to finding the true nature of art. Go for that thing no one can teach you.

I don't have to sit around and wait for the next movie to come along, I can go out and sing.

It was so important for me to lose everything, because I found out what the most important thing is, which is to be true to yourself.

There is only one honest impulse at the bottom of Puritanism, and that is the impulse to punish the man with a superior capacity for happiness.

We shouldn't leave the work of politics to people who run for public office.

Smell is important. It reminds a person of all the things he's been through; it is a sheath of memories and security.

At this hour Lie at my mercy all mine enemies.