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.

I'm a writer more than I am a talker.

Other than the fact that I like a country house, I can't think of anything I'd want to spend my money on.

There are a lot of billionaires in Silicon Valley, but in the end, we are all heading to the same place. If given the choice between making a lot of money or finding a way to make people live longer, what do you choose?

The money in the schools overpowers the principles of the purpose.

The poor have to labour in the face of the majestic equality of the law, which forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.