Core Values of the human species: (1) Whether you are Japanese or a South Pacific Islander or an American, you have always sought a better way of life, a higher quality of life. You have not been satisfied to exist [with] your status quo of living in poverty, or living in a diminished social status, economic status or political status; you always want to have a better quality of life. - Mitchell Tsai

(2) Growth. In order to improve your quality of life, you must grow in some way. (3) Equality. Across your whole species—meaning that whether you are an Estonian, or you are an Ethiopian. You value yourself equally as other people value themselves. - Mitchell Tsai

In a socially sustainable morality, the individual is seen as an asset, whose active participation in their lives, their family’s life, their community and society, makes a positive contribution to the sustainability of themselves, their family, community... - Mitchell Tsai

Whether a person has an IQ of 85, or an IQ of 185, they both can make a valuable contribution to the sustainability of their own life, and the sustainability of their family and community, so in that regard they are equal. We do not see any difference in the value of an individual based on their intelligence, or their race, or their ethnicity, or their nationality—those are superfluous. - Mitchell Tsai

The moral code of social sustainability makes it very clear what is moral and what is immoral by individuals, by social agencies and global agencies. Rather than one level of morality and immorality, you have nine: nine on the positive and nine on the negative, for a total of eighteen. ... Moral research teams, as you may call them, will rapidly find that many of your governmental and social agencies are involved in topics that provide immoral answers in a sustainable society. - Mitchell Tsai

...worry is a function of the mind, which does not produce good results; it is concern about the future, which you cannot control in the future, but only can control and affect now in this immediate moment. It is important to teach children how to live their lives in the moment; how to make a better future tomorrow for their life now by discerning what actions they can take now that would be helpful for their ease and comfort tomorrow. If one cannot affect the future in this moment, then they might as well divert their attention and energy into something that is productive. This is highly important to a socially sustainable society and civilization; it begins with individuals who know how to live in the moment. - Mitchell Tsai

...because [people] are so invested in material culture and the objectification of their lives, they have begun with the material sustainability before they begin with social sustainability. It will only be after social sustainability becomes enculturated in most cultures that they will truly begin to see the possibilities of spiritual sustainability. - Mitchell Tsai