Kids born today will see us navigate past the first greatest test of humanity, which is: can we actually be smart enough to live on a planet without destroying it?

Copenhagen has done a remarkable job creating streets that are focused on bicycles and pedestrians.

I think there's a gigantic generation gap in terms of how people understand the Internet and how much they think technology is an important factor in social change.

Optimism is a political act. Those who benefit from the status quo are perfectly happy for us to think nothing is going to get any better. In fact, these days, cynicism is obedience.

Urban retrofitting: creating different sorts of spaces and uses out of places that are already there.

If mass media, social isolation in the suburbs, alienating workplaces and long car commutes create a bunker mentality, the Internet does the opposite.

By looking at climate change as a clean energy generation problem, we're setting ourselves up not to solve it.

It's not just enough to survive. We've got to make something better than what we've got.

The denser places get, the lower the amount of energy people use to get around it.

We have to craft new political realities, not only in places like India, Afghanistan, Kenya, Pakistan, but here at home as well. Another world is possible.

Cabbies in particular seem to like discussing the fate the Earth.

An idea is salvation by imagination

Writers are nothing more than borderline schizophrenics who are able to control the voices.

Failure is good. It's fertilizer. Everything I've learned about coaching, I've learned from making mistakes.

We can still see God in other people and do our best to help them find their own grace. So that’s what I strive to do and pray to do every day.

I never wanted to set the world on fire. So I never had to burn any bridges behind me.

I feel like I am floating in plasma I need a teacher or a lover I need someone to risk being involved with me. I am so vain and I am so masochistic. How can they coexist?

You have moments where you do appearances and people recognize you and you get fan letters, but that's after you've put in long days rehearsing, filming and for us kids - going to school on the set.

Members of trusting teams admit weaknesses and mistakes, take risks in offering feedback and assistance, and focus time and energy on important issues, not politics.

To eat, to speak, to sing (need we add: to kiss?) are operations which have the same site of the body for origin.

If it weren't for the lawyers we wouldn't need them.