Respond to stressful times by turning towards each other, rather than away from each other.

Civil disobedience is an act of love.

What one person can do is to plant the seeds of love and outrage in the hearts of a movement. And if those hearts are fertile ground, those seeds of love and outrage will grow into a revolution.

Our security doesn't come from turning away from the hard stuff; it comes from the knowledge that we can handle it.

Until our leaders take seriously their responsibility to pass on a healthy and just world to the next generation, I will continue this fight.

We need actions that are really coming from people's souls.

The reality is not that I lack respect for the law; it's that I have greater respect for justice.

It's really hard to change the world when your first priority is making sure that the little world around yourself doesn't change.

Alienation is perhaps the most effective tool of control in America, and every reminder of our real connectedness weakens that tool.

I don't think a worship of nature is necessary to mount a really strong defense of the environment.

We think we have no power when in fact we have more than enough power.

Scars show us where we have been, they do not dictate where we are going.

Against stupidity

Well, we are very glad that Russia is so close with NATO.

When you're a kid and your father is an engineer, he goes to the office. I saw my father get up and go to the office in the house and write. But I don't see any similarities.

When wiggling through a hole the world looks different than when scrubbed clean by the wiggle and looking back.

We have people who believe they are scientifically literate but, in fact, are not.

He who controls the fools gold, controls the fools.

Thou hast brought the distant near and made a brother of the stranger.

Who needs forgiveness, should the same extend with readiness.