Americans have made it clear we want to build a more sustainable future. I am excited to harness that energy and see what we can create together.

Will we confront climate change in time or will we let fossil fuel companies determine our fate? This is a fight we can't afford to lose, and that's what keeps me moving forward.

Climate change has the potential to affect everything we care about - whether it is the health of our families, the stability of our communities, or the fate of the wild animals.

I think every single American believes they have a right to clean air and clean water.

Write to your newspaper. Call your Member of Congress. Email President Obama. Speak out for a cleaner, more stable future for all of us.

House Republican leaders voted more than 300 times to undermine environmental safeguards since 2011, but almost none of these measures became law because Americans pushed back.

Political leaders will only undertake bold climate initiatives if they know the American people want it.

At least 3,527 U.S. monthly records for heat, rain, and snow were broken in 2012. We can't let this continue unchecked, and we don't have to.

The people who harvest America's food must be treated with respect and earn a living wage.

Wind and other clean, renewable energy will help end our reliance on fossil fuels and combat the severe threat that climate change poses to humans and wildlife alike.

Climate change is the central environmental ill of our time. We have an obligation to protect our children from the dangers of this widening scourge, and we aren't yet doing enough about it.

Happiness comes in moments, & then it's gone until the next time. Could be years. But sadness settles it.

I would love to work with the artisans and take it to another dimension, the same way I did in Haiti.

Prayer begins by talking to God, but it ends by listening to Him. In the face of Absolute Truth, silence is the soul's language.

There is a vast frontier that's going to take us a while to understand... it was very lunar, a very desolate place, isolated.

All music is worship. It just depends on what you’re worshipping.

.. if all the information of the cosmos flows through our pores at every moment, then our current notion of our human potential is only a glimmer of what it should be.

You don't have to compromise convictions to be compassionate.

Home is where the heart is, no matter how the heart lives.

When you create something out of thin air you have to know the human heart.

He who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence.