Each one of us has the power to be the change we want to see in the world, making the world a better place.
I am a man without a furnace. My windows are insulated by 19 sheets of glass which cost less than installing a heating system.
Today we have a temporary aberration called "industrial capitalism" which is inadvertently liquidating its two most important sources of capital, the natural world and properly functioning societies. No sensible capitalist would do that.
What if we could make energy do our work without working our undoing?
I think along the way, as we treat nature as model and mentor, and not as a nuisance to be evaded or manipulated, we will certainly acquire much more reverence for life than we seem to be showing right now.
We've got 21st century technology and speed colliding head-on with 20th and 19th century institutions, rules and cultures.
The markets make a good servant but a bad master, and a worse religion.
One thing I teach my children and want everyone to know that even if you happen to be on a pedestal you should have the capacity to turn around and say, 'I don't know'. We are scared to go wrong. Downfall is part of life.
Retirement: It's nice to get out of the rat race, but you have to learn to get along with less cheese.
Living in the fishbowl is hard enough without worrying about a Secret Service that can't keep mum.
Don't care about all the pain in front of me, cause I'm just trying to be happy.