Be calm in the face of all common disgraces.
We now have access to so much information that we can find support for any prejudice or opinion.
We can no longer tolerate what's going on in Ottawa and Edmonton. What I would challenge you to do is to put a lot of effort into trying to see whether there's a legal way of throwing our so-called leaders into jail because what they're doing is a criminal act.
I see a world in the future in which we understand that all life is related to us and we treat that life with great humility and respect.
Many organic practices simply make sense, regardless of what overall agricultural system is used. Far from being a quaint throwback to an earlier time, organic agriculture is proving to be a serious contender in modern farming and a more environmentally sustainable system over the long term.
The voluntary approach to corporate social responsibility has failed in many cases.
We have become a force of nature.
Today continuing poverty and distress are a deeper and more important cause of international tensions, of the conditions that can produce war, than previously.
Realistic expectations for life are that we are going to be better today than we were yesterday, be better tomorrow than we were today. That's a plan for success. So [the key is] simple: just work.
We can do a bit of blaming: the proliferation of devices means we're always at work, always on call, always available. Physically leaving the office isn't a declaration of being off work anymore; your office is in your bag or pocket.
In every other religion the indicative flows from the imperative. Which means, ‘because I do, therefore I am. . . because I do this, therefore I’m a child of God. ’ But only in Christianity does the imperative flow from the indicative. ‘Because I am in Christ all these things, therefore I obey. ’ Exactly the opposite.