Right now, the government is spending billions of dollars supporting the problem-makers in the U.S. economy - the polluters, despoilers, incarcerators, and warmongers.

It's in that convergence of spiritual people becoming active and active people becoming spiritual that the hope of humanity now rests.

If the road to social transformation can be paved only by saints who never make mistakes, the road will NEVER be built.

In a democracy, you won't always get to have your way. But you should always get to have your say.

If we stand for change, we can spark a popular movement with power, influence, magic and genius.

All humans have fear, and those of us who are fortunate have faith.

When it gets harder to love, love harder.

The time has come to move beyond eco-elitism to eco-populism.

Each and every one of us should stop playing small and license ourselves to become one of the giants of the new century. We will need champions by the truckload.

The usual pattern of demagogues is to promise the moon, fail to deliver, and then blame vulnerable others for those failures.

I'm willing to forgo the cheap satisfaction of the radical pose for the deep satisfaction of radical ends.

For all of nature's wonder and beauty, it is also hostile and unpredictable.

What we wear is the shell of who we are.

In the Sixties people took acid to make the world weird. Now the world is weird, people take Prozac to make it normal.

When the necessary eleven days were added, George Washington’s birthday, which fell on February 11, 1731, Old Style, became February 22, 1732, New Style.

Suspicion follows close on mistrust.

I wasn't dyslexic, I was just very slow. I passed my time daydreaming.

When I go in front of the light - go towards it - it is because it brings me energy. That's all.

Modern man lives increasingly in the future and neglects the present.

The slacker does not plow during planting season; at harvest time he looks, and there is nothing.

I usually just have ideas when I have them.