Nobody is rewarded for occupying a position, but for becoming effective in the position occupied. If you occupy a position, you must have the weight of influence in order to matter!

We have to get over this notion, which many of us are taught early, that your soul is in your body. Because if your soul is in your body, it doesn’t grow very much–your body...

I wonder if rooms in an insane asylum have Do Not Disturb signs for the doors. I should hope not, because knock or no knock, every occupant in those rooms is already disturbed.

Again, it’s about patterns––you see the pattern, for example, that a young person has moral outrage and is finding effective ways to express it. It’s very important that the older generation sees this, feels it,...

If you really want succeed in what you do, obey this rule;… Wake up very early, go to bed lately… Occupy your time usefully!

That’s why we live in a world that is so messed up, because most of us go along, simply because going along is connected to our paychecks.

My love can only occupy one person at a time. I try for that person to not be me.

We believe that today’s younger generation, who started a global movement by camping out on Wall Street and its equivalents around the world and who are often choosing a road less traveled rather than joining...

..reading a book doesn’t mean just turning the pages. It means thinking about it, identifying parts that you want to go back to, asking how to place it in a broader context, pursuing the ideas....

There is much to be angry about in today’s world, whether you are young or old, but certainly if you are young. Adultism reigns.

I say to the Occupy protesters – you’re occupying the wrong place, you’re protesting the wrong thing.

The powerful do not understand hope. Hope is not part of their vocabulary. They speak in cold, dead words of national security, global markets, electoral strategy, staying on message, image and money…Those addicted to power,...

In recent years a smaller share of young adults has been employed than at any time since the Bureau of Labor Statistics started tracking such trends in 1948. So it’s not surprising that this generation...

Many young activists tend to resist spirituality, thinking that religion has nothing to do with social change and is, in fact, part of the problem.

People used to make money, but somewhere along the way, it started making us.

The virtues of free enterprise can become distorted by greed & delusion.

Listen in close, Wall Street Conquistadors, you’re spreading like vapor up through people’s floors, you’re moving en masse under the cracks of our doors and grabbing our children to work in your stores, feeding the...

Do something. Successful achievers wake up in the morning and go to bed in the night. In between their waking up and going to bed is occupied with action, action, action and action.

We believe that the movement, from Cairo to New York, from San Francisco to London, that is being called “Occupy” is a movement of spiritual democracy.

Never be anxious about maintaining the position you occupy. Be anxious about maintaining your good character and you will never lose your leadership influence!

Certainly–and we can all agree on this, whether we are atheists, theists, panentheists–the future is doing the calling. The unborn children, our great-great-grandchildren are doing the calling. A mere seventy-five years from now they’re going...