If you're not arguing, your coalition isn't wide enough.

Free speech is meaningless if the commercial cacophony has risen to the point where no one can hear you.

Democracy is not just the right to vote, it is the right to live in dignity.

Politics hates a vacuum. If it isn't filled with hope, someone will fill it with fear.

The task is clear: to create a culture of caretaking in which no one and nowhere is thrown away, in which the inherent value of people and all life is foundational.

When Nike says, just do it, that's a message of empowerment. Why aren't the rest of us speaking to young people in a voice of inspiration?

We can save ourselves, but only if we let go of the myth of dominance and mastery and learn to work with nature.

The powerful feed ideology to the masses like fast food while they dine on that most rarefied delicacy: impunity.

I am convinced that climate change represents a historic opportunity on an even greater scale.

[On climate change:] What if it's all a hoax and we've created a better world for nothing?

Our enslavement to oil has required the repression of millions of Arab people. As they shake off their bonds, so must we.

Habits decide who you become permanently, what you do daily and what you have always.

Nothing conquers the chaos around me like the calm assurance that I am at peace with God.

Love is poetry plus biology.

No, he can never be lost who recommends himself to thee, O Mary.

The investor's chief problem - and even his worst enemy - is likely to be himself.

Unlike Woody Allen, I would be happy to be part of any (poetry) club that would have me.

Dead men would start and move toward me to learn of love.

Impeach President Reagan retroactively for agreeing with Obama on the assault weapons ban.

Ive always been really inspired by watching top athletes putting in peak performances.

No; he could be ruined again and again by hope, but he would never be capable of belief.