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

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

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.

In a world where profit is consistently put before both people and the planet, climate economics has everything to do with ethics and morality.

It's like crazy how many different kinds of yoga there are. And now that they have it for surfers and for this one and for that one.

The divorced person is like a man with a black patch over one eye: he looks rather dashing but the fact is that he has been through a maiming experience.

The blessing is not about being able to receive as much as it is being in a position to give back to others.

I started to play Jazz music in my early teens. A boyfriend brought records over, so I listened to everything

A team is a fist-not five fingers.

It is important to remember that these are your Declining Years, in which you can jolly well decline to do what you don't feel like doing, unless not doing it would make you feel worse than doing it.

I think the most important thing for us to make judgments about is what can we really do? What can we achieve?

Now you can't even carry a nail clipper on a plane. Are they afraid you're going to go..."All right! Give me the plane or the b*tch loses her cuticle." ?

Of course, I want to be number one. But being happy and healthy is the most important thing.

By the way, today with digital cameras and editing on your laptop, and things like that, you can make a feature film, a narrative feature film easily for $10,000.