Change arises from conviction. Stop voting in fear. Start voting for hope.

August 28th 2012. Remember that date. It marks the day when the world went raving mad.

Nobody ever rioted for austerity.

Progress is measured by the speed at which we destroy the conditions that sustain life.

When you warn people about the dangers of climate change, they call you a saint. When you explain what needs to be done to stop it, they call you a communist.

The Christians stole the winter solstice from the pagans, and capitalism stole it from the Christians.

If wealth was the inevitable result of hard work and enterprise, every woman in Africa would be a millionaire.

In motivating people to love and defend the natural world, an ounce of hope is worth a ton of despair.

Like other lifeforms, we [humans] exist only to replicate ourselves.

Faced with a choice between the survival of the planet and a new set of matching tableware, most people would choose the tableware.

Do we want to be remembered as the generation that saved the banks and let the biosphere collapse?

Summer was full on and the nights hot. It was like lying in warm syrup there in the dark under the viaduct, in the steady whine of gnats and nightbugs

An intelligent person is eager to speak, but a wise person is eager to listen.

A pure love is a selfless love, but can desire ever be selfless?

There is no quality of human nature so nearly royal as the ability to yield gracefully.

Most women are pragmatists who have allowed extremists on the left and right to manipulate the family issue for their own purposes.

If I tap that little bell, I can send you to a place where you will never hear the dogs bark.

You really have to challenge yourself to come out of those parameters that they put you in, even if that's your job.

I don't go to things because I want to see violence, I go to things because I want to see them handled well.

Donald Trump doesn't pose a single threat to the greatness of America.

I am who I am; no more, no less.