We actually need conservatives to be better conservatives and we need liberals to be better and stronger liberals.

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.

The longings of the human heart are changeable and elusive. The good fortune we enjoy today may not be appreciated until it has been taken away and we have to fight and try to get it back (p.132)

If Duncan was ever into men then he's been so far in the closet he's been living in Narnia.

One of the most difficult things I ever did was learn to support myself through my whole range of emotional experiences without running away.

I don’t care who you love, what you believe, how you look, where you’re from or what you do. If you are a good hearted person, you’re good in my books!

When people hold you in high esteem, it's very delicate relationship. When they meet you they're putting all their chips up. It's make or break.

I have great satisfaction in stating that our relations with France, Russia, and other powers continue on the most friendly basis.

What's it like to be on the other side of me?

Finding a technical cofounder would have been difficult for me. I was an English major and didn't know any computer programmers.

Because if we destroy Creation, Creation will destroy us! Never forget this!

And for an apple damn'd mankind.