Culture is a slingshot moved by the force of its past

A careless way of sauntering across the earth and breaking open its treasures, a terrible dependency on sucking out the world's best juices for ourselves-these may also be our enemies. The changes we dread most may contain our salvation.

Small change, small wonders - these are the currency of my endurance and ultimately of my life.

When people are frightened about going hungry and paying their mortgages, a scarcity model begins to prevail; they fear someone else will get their piece of the pie.

I had decided early on that if I couldn’t dress elegant, I’d dress memorable.

...nothing momentous comes in this world unless it comes on the shoulders of kindness.

Of the two hundred bones in the human body, more than a quarter are in the foot. It is a more complicated instrument than an automobile transmission, and it is treated with far less consideration.