Community is as endangered by surplus as it is by deficit. If there is too much money floating around it enables people to have no need of each other.

Climate change is the single biggest thing that humans have ever done on this planet. The one thing that needs to be bigger is our movement to stop it.

The technology we need most badly is the technology of community, the knowledge about how to cooperate to get things done.

Very few people on earth ever get to say: 'I am doing, right now, the most important thing I could possibly be doing.' If you'll join this fight that's what you'll get to say

what you do every day is what forms your mind and precious few of us can or would spend most days outdoors.

In 50 years, no one will care about the fiscal cliff or the Euro crisis. They'll just ask, "So the Arctic melted, and then what did you do?"

Global warming is no longer a philosophical threat, no longer a future threat, no longer a threat at all. It's our reality.

Advent: the time to listen for footsteps - you can't hear footsteps when you're running yourself.

We've been given a warning by science, and a wake-up call by nature; it is up to us now to heed them.

The real negotiation is between humans on the one hand and chemistry and physics on the other. And chemistry and physics, unfortunately, don't bargain.

We can either save the planet from catastrophic warming, or protect fossil fuel CEOs. Not both. Do the math(s)

If he can't handle you at your worst then he does not deserve you at your best. Real love means seeing beyond the words spoken out of pain, and instead seeing a person's soul.

Finding love on your doorstep will make you open up your heart to the world.

Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.

Did children want sports cars for parents? No. They wanted Hondas. They wanted to know that the car would start in all seasons.

As important as increase is, it is not an end in itself

Answers are not obtained by putting the wrong question and thereby begging the real one.

To really enjoy the better things in life, one must first have experienced the things they are better than.

As you believe, so it is for you.

If a jazz player is really playing, the classical player will have to respect him.