We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.

If we do more with less, our response will be adequate to take care of everybody.

The earth is like a spaceship that didn't come with an operating manual.

I have to say, I think that we are in some kind of final examination as to whether human beings now, with this capability to acquire information and to communicate, whether we're really qualified to take on the responsibility we're designed to be entrusted with. And this is not a matter of an examination of the types of governments, nothing to do with politics, nothing to do with economic systems. It has to do with the individual. Does the individual have the courage to really go along with the truth?

As long as one human being is hungry, the entire human race is hungry.

However, if we leave the industrial machinery and their energy-distribution networks and leave them also all the people who have routine jobs operating the industrial machinery and distributing its products, and we take away from all the industrial countries all their ideologies and all the politicians and political machine workers, people would keep right on eating. Possibly getting on a little better than before.

You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.