Self-centeredness will bring on the destruction of our world. National pride separates people. All people need the same thing. When you really get down to it, you'll find that all people need good food, clean water, clean air, and a decent environment, meaning education as to how to relate to one another and to avoid conflict, how to accept the differences where different people draw different conclusions.

If all things keep changing, how can you become sane?

We accept, without sufficient consideration, a system that breeds inefficiencies and actually encourages the creation of shortages.

If you're shipwrecked on an island with 10 million dollars and your wife has gold and diamonds, but there's no water, no arable land, no fish, you have nothing. Money is a 'nothing' thing.

The only hope for developing a new civilization is to accept responsibility for improving our lives through knowledge, understanding, and a deeper comprehension of humanity’s relationship to natural processes of evolution. Our future is determined by effort we put forth to achieve this transition.

The Venus Project is a concept that could happen today but it is not up to me, it depends on what others do to help bring it about.

We have more than enough resources in the world. The only thing we don't have is brains in Washington.