It is a campaign not for abundance but for austerity. It is a campaign not for more freedom but for less. Strangest of all, it is a campaign not just against other people, but against ourselves.

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.

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

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

forgiveness happens when you know that the other is not responsible.

When we make the choice to care, we set into motion a snowball effect that touches many people, most of whom we will never know about . . . never underestimate the importance of a kind act.

I wrote my thesis on welfare policy.

Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing.

Yes, thanks to God... my life has a goal, much more important than my artistic activities, that is the struggle against Leukemia.

I think violence begets violence. I don't think a way to solve any sort of conflict is with violence because nothing ever ends up solved, that way.

Persuasive influences are better than any amount of moralizing.

It is better to be alone than unwelcome. - Eve

My grandmother and both my parents worked in Bollywood.

Went to the paper shop - it had blown away.