There is no ideal Christmas; only the one Christmas you decide to make as a reflection of your values, desires, affections, traditions.

Climate change is the single biggest thing that humans have ever done on this planet. The one thing that needs to be bigger is our movement to stop it.

The technology we need most badly is the technology of community, the knowledge about how to cooperate to get things done.

Very few people on earth ever get to say: 'I am doing, right now, the most important thing I could possibly be doing.' If you'll join this fight that's what you'll get to say

what you do every day is what forms your mind and precious few of us can or would spend most days outdoors.

In 50 years, no one will care about the fiscal cliff or the Euro crisis. They'll just ask, "So the Arctic melted, and then what did you do?"

Global warming is no longer a philosophical threat, no longer a future threat, no longer a threat at all. It's our reality.

Advent: the time to listen for footsteps - you can't hear footsteps when you're running yourself.

We've been given a warning by science, and a wake-up call by nature; it is up to us now to heed them.

The real negotiation is between humans on the one hand and chemistry and physics on the other. And chemistry and physics, unfortunately, don't bargain.

We can either save the planet from catastrophic warming, or protect fossil fuel CEOs. Not both. Do the math(s)

What a mother wants is to hold her babies when they’re small and to be held by them once they’ve grown tall. It’s empty arms a mother dreads.

A rainy day is like a lovely gift -- you can sleep late and not feel guilty.

It may well be that some composers do not believe in God. All of them, however, believe in Bach.

I lived in Los Angeles in the '80s, which was not the best place to be.

Ethics is a bit like culture: the less one has, the more one flaunts it.

How many people become abstract as a way of appearing profound.

Getting a chance to practice six months against my own teammates, who I consider the best soccer players in the world, there's no way I couldn't improve.

Awards are great, but they're not who you are, and pop culture isn't who you are.

The end of the play is kind of the beginning.

No society is so precious as that of one’s own family.