To green our country, regular people will have to put on hard hats and work boots, roll up their sleeves - and get to work.

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.

A bad friend secretly plots your downfall

The loiterer often imputes delay to his more active friend.

I'm not sure how a world leader reacts to the work of a clown.

I call my therapist every other day. It's not a one-stop shop. You have to push away all that negativity in your head. Face it, name it, let it go.

I have learned to delegate.

Over time, grit is what separates fruitful lives from aimlessness.

Our interest's on the dangerous edge of things. The honest thief, the tender murderer, the superstitious atheist.

When my own writing needs a perk, I open Zukofsky and read from "A" - particularly sections "22" and "23." It can be opaque, but I love the intensity.

Do you know that I have undergone three quarters of this labour entirely for the sake of the fourth quarter?