Our own economy tells us to take as much as we can get, right? Our own economy says, you're going to be the most successful graduate if you go into the business world and take as much you can get. That's not how nature works. Nature has a much simpler economy. Everything in nature takes what it needs. That's it. You don't see an oak tree gathering up all the resources. An oak tree takes what it needs to be the authentic oak tree it is.

What matters is who we are, not who we beat.

I think laughter is a sacred act.

Communism didn't work because people weren't ready for it, it was corrupt, and because it squelched individualism.

Look at native cultures - they've lasted for tens of thousands of years, not doing everything right. We wouldn't want to emulate them in many ways, but their basic philosophies - being a part of nature, a part of a tribe or group without elevating, not what you call dominator philosophies - they lasted for tens of thousands of years. It took us to come and put them asunder.

Death is not the enemy. A life lived without love is the enemy.

You can't sow an apple seed and expect to get an avocado tree. The consequences of your life are sown in what you do and how you behave.