By kicking its carbon addiction, America will increase its national wealth and generate millions of jobs that can't be outsourced.

It's in that convergence of spiritual people becoming active and active people becoming spiritual that the hope of humanity now rests.

If the road to social transformation can be paved only by saints who never make mistakes, the road will NEVER be built.

In a democracy, you won't always get to have your way. But you should always get to have your say.

If we stand for change, we can spark a popular movement with power, influence, magic and genius.

All humans have fear, and those of us who are fortunate have faith.

When it gets harder to love, love harder.

The time has come to move beyond eco-elitism to eco-populism.

Each and every one of us should stop playing small and license ourselves to become one of the giants of the new century. We will need champions by the truckload.

The usual pattern of demagogues is to promise the moon, fail to deliver, and then blame vulnerable others for those failures.

I'm willing to forgo the cheap satisfaction of the radical pose for the deep satisfaction of radical ends.

The most awesome powers are those not wielded.

Fake it till you feel it

What saps your energy and drains your strength? If it makes you feel bad on the inside, it will make those around you feel bad too! Don’t be the energy vampire whom people want to avoid.

You pick people, and they pick you sometimes. It's especially great to connect with people you think you have nothing in common with.

I had no ambition to make a fortune. Mere money-making has never been my goal, I had an ambition to build.

Let the Church always be a place of mercy and hope, where everyone is welcomed, loved and forgiven.

Change what cannot be accepted and accept what cannot be changed.

For example, if the big bang had been one-part-in-a billion more powerful, it would have rushed out too fast for the galaxies to form and for life to begin.

By the creative act, we are able to reach beyond our own death.

To get a great idea, come up with lots of them.