Business shouldn't be like sports, separating the men from the women.

We cannot cheat on DNA. We cannot get round photosynthesis. We cannot say I am not going to give a damn about phytoplankton. All these tiny mechanisms provide the preconditions of our planetary life. To say we do not care is to say in the most literal sense that "we choose death."

the distinction between rich nations and poor nations is one of the great dominant political and international themes of our century.

The raw material from which social institutions are fashioned is always more or less recalcitrant and any human society will tend to produce a caricature of itself.

On the one hand, we are faced with the stewardship of this beautiful, subtle, incredibly delicate, fragile planet. On the other, we confront the destiny of our fellow man, our brothers. How can we say that we are followers of Christ if this dual responsibility does not seem to us the essence and heart of our religion?

It is a truism that one person who wants something is a hundred times stronger than a hundred who want to be left alone.

We have forgotten how to be good guests, how to walk lightly on the earth as its other creatures do.