"It is not a question of whether you 'have what it takes,' but of whether you take the gifts you have - they are plenteous - and share them with all the world."

“Working for the earth is not a way to get rich, it is a way to be rich”

Source : Paul Hawken's commencement address to the Class of 2009 at the University of Portland in Oregon, www.commondreams.org. May 3, 2009.

“When someone is giving you his opinion, you should receive it with deep gratitude even though it is worthless. If you don't, he will not tell you the things that he has seen and heard about you again.”

“Girls like you want to cut guy's nuts off and hang 'em from your rearview mirror.”

“What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives acts and experiences otherwise than we do?”

“The more you do the right thing, the harder it is to do the wrong thing.”

“I set goals, but they're mostly very personal goals. I never try and set a goal where 'I want to win this,' or 'I want to do this,' where other people can affect what I do. If I want to swim a new best time, I sit down and work out the best way of doing that. Whether I can shave a few tenths of a second off a turn or the start, my goal is putting them all together in a race. That's the way I set my goals.”

“If OJ Simpson did not have a handgun, Nicole and Ron would still be alive today.”

Source : "A gun control halftime show: Should Bob Costas have spoken out on Belcher suicide?" by Mallory Simon, www.cnn.com. December 3, 2012.

“I wanted the feel in these books to be like an epic fantasy, with kings, queens, dukes and court politics, but of course like what I was explaining before, about making the science make sense, you have to make the politics make sense, too.”