“Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can’t see from the center. Big, undreamed of things – the people on the edge see them first.
“The past is already gone, the future is not yet here. There’s only one moment for you to live, and that is the present moment
“Look at uncertainty not as something to be scared of, but as the adventure that makes you feel alive, and as the hope of a better world.
“The perfect dictatorship would have the appearance of a democracy, but would basically be a prison without walls in which the prisoners would not even dream of escaping. It would essentially be a system of slavery where, through consumption and entertainment, the slaves would love their servitudes.
“The world is full of nice people, but only when it is full of good people will we create a positive and sustainable future.
“If you’re not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.
“The simplest form of activism is to simply live by your own conscience and lead by example
“Whatever our resources of primary energy may be in the future, we must, to be rational, obtain it without consumption of any material.
“Conservationism takes an arbitrary snapshot in time from which we should neither regress nor progress. It is the ideology that change is bad.
“Nationalism is just discrimination masquerading as loyalty
“There are only two things that you should be doing in life.
Finding out what you want to do with your life and then getting on and doing it.
“The best friends are those that help you to become a better version of yourself
“Money is a measure of wealth. Money is not wealth.
“It’s never too late to start doing the right thing
“Progress begins by recognising reality
“Our entire lives are built not on facts, but on stories that we tell ourselves. Some people’s stories are more accurate than others.
“Self-awareness is the foundation of self-improvement
“[Everyone] occasionally stumbles over the truth, but most … pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.
“If we could live happy and healthy lives without harming others… why wouldn’t we?
“Our biggest problem as humans is that we have more power than self-control.
“Being healthy is just respecting the trillion cells that give and share in complete synchronicity to support your life
“The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest his patients in the care of the human frame, in diet and in the cause and prevention of disease.
“Those who do not find time for exercise will have to find time for illness
“The wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings. Let food be your medicine.