We need a more diversified portfolio of change-making tools so that we don't just get so freaked out by whatever's happening in the political corner.

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.

Whatever I thought might hold me back, I avoided. I crossed girls off my list, except as tools for my sexual needs.

I actually profoundly think the world's a better place when economics is fairly boring... The more boring the better.

I become more convinced that beings from other planets are using the Earth as a lunatic asylum

I try to let my decisions be guided not by what I think will succeed or fail, but what I'm going to learn from that process.

There's two kinds of press that you get when you put out a TV show: The reviews, and the people that just decide what the reviews say.

So what is wild? What is wilderness? What are dreams but an internal wilderness and what is desire but a wildness of the soul?

The minute you make people laugh, you get them to listen.

Anyone who tries to make a living as a painter knows you can't lounge about waiting for inspiration to hit; nothing motivates like keeping a roof over your head.

The quest for truth must be carried out by each person individually. It is like breathing, something which no one else can do for us.

We should invest in people not ideas. A good idea is often destroyed by bad people and good people can always make a bad idea better.