The past is our definition. We may strive with good reason to escape it, or to escape what is bad in it. But we will escape it only by adding something better to it.

To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival.

These are people who are capable of devotion, public devotion, to justice. They meant what they said and every day that passes, they mean it more.

Industrial agriculture characteristically proceeds by single solutions to single problems: If you want the most money from your land this year, grow the crops for which the market price is highest.

Sleep after toil, port after stormy seas, Ease after war, death after life does greatly please.

There can be no darker or more devastating tragedy than the death of man's faith in himself and in his power to direct his future.

My mom was diagnosed with breast cancer when I was four. And she was re-diagnosed when I was seven or eight, and again when I was 13, and my dad was very unhealthy, too. I was living on the edge of mortality my entire childhood.

Success can breed all kinds of other behavior and cause companies to behave a certain way that isn't necessarily the ingredients for achieving more success. For instance, with success comes arrogance, and that's typically the death of success.