The truly powerful feed ideology to the masses like fast food while they dine on the most rarified delicacy of all: impunity.

Free speech is meaningless if the commercial cacophony has risen to the point where no one can hear you.

Democracy is not just the right to vote, it is the right to live in dignity.

Politics hates a vacuum. If it isn't filled with hope, someone will fill it with fear.

The task is clear: to create a culture of caretaking in which no one and nowhere is thrown away, in which the inherent value of people and all life is foundational.

When Nike says, just do it, that's a message of empowerment. Why aren't the rest of us speaking to young people in a voice of inspiration?

We can save ourselves, but only if we let go of the myth of dominance and mastery and learn to work with nature.

The powerful feed ideology to the masses like fast food while they dine on that most rarefied delicacy: impunity.

I am convinced that climate change represents a historic opportunity on an even greater scale.

[On climate change:] What if it's all a hoax and we've created a better world for nothing?

Our enslavement to oil has required the repression of millions of Arab people. As they shake off their bonds, so must we.

We were sleeping on the same bed with our backs to each other trying to imagine a new life.

I see now the virtue in madness, for this country knows no law nor any boundary. I pity the poor shades confined to the Euclidean prison that is sanity

I have always known that at last I would take this road, but yesterday I did not know that it would be today.

The Denver Post has actually hired an editor to promote pot.

Tolerating evil leads only to more evil. And when good people stand by and do nothing while wickedness reigns, their communities will be consumed.

I hate vacations. There's nothing to do.

Death knocks at your door, and before you can tell him to come in, he is in the house with you.

More women are graduating from college now than men.

Love possesses seven hundred wings, and each one extends from the highest heaven to the lowest earth.

For bees are captious folk / And quick to turn against the lubber's touch.