A society should never become like a pond with stagnant water, without movement. That's the most important thing.

One of the most important lessons we can glean from the environmental movement is to 'think globally and act locally.'

Pound's translation of Chinese poetry was maybe the most important thing I read. Eliot a little bit later.

I just think the most important aspect in being able to have a productive relationship between the teachers' unions and the districts and the states that they're dealing with is that the person sitting across the table from them should not have received the largest campaign contributions from the teachers' union itself.

Money isn't the most important thing in life, but it's reasonably close to oxygen on the 'gotta have it' scale.

The most important innovators often don't need any technologies - just imagination and acute sensitivity to people's needs.