Quite apart from anything else, my experience is trying to change things for the better makes you feel better, healthier. Humans are communicative animals: when you do good in a community, the benefits eventually get back to you.

I don't want to be defined by being the founder of the Body Shop, and I don't want to be defined as a woman suffering from Hepatitis C. There's more to my life than that.

Globalization ... is the most important change in the history of mankind, and often just the latest name for the conspiracy of the rich against the poor.

You have to look at leadership through the eyes of the followers and you have to live the message.

I want to work for a company that contributes to and is part of the community. I want something not just to invest in. I want something to believe in.

If I can't do something for the public good, what the hell am I doing?

Any business or enterprise that shaves away loneliness is going to last forever. And like it or not but we've got a lonely society.