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?"

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.

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)

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

The death of loved ones often awakens the death inside of us.

Song of Solomon 1:2- Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth: for thy love is better than wine.

All outward success when it has value is but the inevitable result of an inward success of full living full play and enjoyment of one's faculties.

Time will inevitably uncover dishonesty and lies history has no place for them.

With the success of a show, you get an opportunity to call attention to things that you believe in.

I would rather get out of the game than stay in the game to change the game.

The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.

Hey, its not much of a closet is it?" "No. Its not. I don't like closets. Life's to short to spend hiding in the dark.

Writing for adults often means just increasing the swearing - but find an alternative to swearing and you've probably got a better line.