Clean energy independence should be an area of common ground.

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.

People are usually more interested in what is new, rather than what is better.

People talk-- they sneer at escapism. Well, there are those of us who need it.

Fashion and riches will mask much annoyance.

One of the surprising privileges of intellectuals is that they are free to be scandalously asinine without harming their reputations.

You always ask if I'm okay But it's not the same as being happy

If you don't think you're close-minded for not believing in Zeus, then please don't accuse atheists of being close-minded for not believing in your god.

The greatest danger we face is not any particular kind of thought. The greatest danger we face is absence of thought.

Fine dancing, I believe, like virtue, must be its own reward.

For me a paragraph in a novel is a bit like a line in a poem. It has its own shape, its own music, its own integrity.

There is no permanent absolute unchangeable truth; what we should pursue is the most convenient arrangement of our ideas.