I believe it is possible that we can turn today's breakdown into a planetary breakthrough on one condition. We can do it if we can break free of a set of dominant but misleading ideas that are taking us down.

We are very much social creatures who model ourselves on one another.

I think that luxury has nothing to do with money, and everything to do with beauty.

I think of Wangari Mathai in Kenya. If she started out saying she wanted to plant 20 million trees, she would have been laughed at. In fact, the foresters and the government did laugh at her. They said, "Villagers? Un-schooled villagers? Planting trees? No, no, no, it takes foresters." So she planted trees anyway.

If we cannot know what's possible, then we are free to do that which is pulling our hearts and that which is life serving.

The good life is not about avoiding fear. Just the opposite.

Freedom is not the capacity to do whatever we please; freedom is the capacity to make intelligent choices.