What Alpha offers, and what is attracting thousands of people, is permission, rare in secular culture, to discuss the big questions - life and death and their meaning.

You can’t change the world, but you can change yourself. That adage suits consumer capitalism perfectly, since the illusion of changing ourselves is a successfully maintained through shopping.

Reducing consumption is imperative, but it's pointless to cut out meat and cars while having lots of children.

It's only terrible to have nothing to wait for.

Should I tell him that I think dreams never die even when they're dead?

Some old wounds never truly heal, and bleed again at the slightest word.

If you keep shooting for what you love to do, then it can’t turn out wrong. Get into the habit of going for what you want. Figure out what makes you happy and fulfilled and then do those things!

Poverty, hatred, war, police-criminals, bureaucracy, insanity, all symptoms of The Human Virus.

The famous carry about with them a great weight of patriarchal baggage-the footnotes of their lives.

A lot of fellows nowadays have a B.A., M.D., or Ph.D. Unfortunately, they don't have a J.O.B.

Vain-glorious men are the scorn of the wise, the admiration of fools, the idols of paradise, and the slaves of their own vaunts.

We fit the universe through our brains and it comes out in the form of nothing less than poetry. We have a responsibility to awe.

You could not turn off love- even the rather absent, sometimes taken for granted love- the way you'd turn off a faucet. Love ran from the heart and the heart had it's own imperatives