The overarching factor to me is if we can't be kind to each other, we won't be kind to the planet.

Behind every successful man there's a lot of unsuccessful years.

I am aware that one should always make room for renewal in politics. A democracy is the healthier for the turnover of the depth of talent there is in its community.

Exxon, Coca-Cola, BHP Billiton and News Corporation have much more say in organising the global agenda than the planet's 5 billion mature-age voters without a ballot box.

We are all born bonded to nature; that's why we put depictions of flowers and forests, rather than bulldozers or log piles, on our walls.

The future will either be green or not at all.

I didn't want to be a shock absorber; I wanted to deliver the shock.

There are better alternatives... Australia should be exporting its solar technology, not its uranium.

In securing the future of the planet, we secure happiness for ourselves. One of the aims of the Greens is to turn around the tide of pessimism amongst the young people of the world.

The Greens will continue to champion a fairer society rather than simply the economy and to champion the parliament rather than simply the stock exchange .

Globally the Greens have arisen like a spontaneous combustion, a reaction to the narrow-minded state-backed exploitation of resources and wealth for a few at the expense of the many.

I direct a lot of TV commercials and music videos.

A circus here, a circus there; here today, gone tomorrow. Big Brother watching you. Fear eats the soul.

Now, my mom always said two wrongs don't make a right. But she never said anything about four wrongs, and that always left me confused.

I loved New York. I made enough money and studied acting with Kenneth McMillan, which was my first formal training.

Also, I liked John Cage's music. I liked it for its craziness, the use of silence, the boldness-anything to get me away from writing about.. I don't know what academic poets write about.

Even trained for years as they all had been in precision of language, what words could you use which would give another the experience of sunshine?

Elegance is inferior to virtue.

No one should judge what I've done with my life, not unless they've been in my shoes every horrible day and every sleepless night.

When the judges shall be obliged to go armed, it will be time for the courts to be closed.

I was told I would become nothing. Now I am showing people how big nothing is.