When you optimize your talents very well, you can pick money from people's pockets and nobody will ever get the guts to call you a thief.
We are all dust passing through the air, the difference is, some are flying high in the sky, while others are flying low. But eventually, we all settle on the same ground.
The world has a very serious problem, my friend' Shiva went on. 'Poor children still die by their millions. Westerners and the global rich -- like me -- live in post-scarcity society, while a billion people struggle to get enough to eat. And we're pushing the planet towards a tipping point, where the corals die and the forests burn and life becomes much, much harder. We have the resources to solve those problems, even now, but politics and economics and nationalism all get in the way. If we could access all those minds, though...
Neatness and cleanliness is not a function of how rich or poor you are but that of mentality and principle.
Some people will insult your intelligence by suddenly being nice or nicer to you once you make it … or they think you have.