In today's integrated world economy, ... eradicating poverty may contribute as much to U.S. security as eradicating terrorism.

One way or another, the choice will be made by our generation, but it will affect life on earth for all generations to come

Saving civilization is not a spectator sport.

No civilization has survived the ongoing destruction of its natural support systems. Nor will ours.

Today, more than ever, we need political leaders who can see the big picture, who understand the relationship between the economy and its environmental support systems.

Our numbers expand, but Earth's natural systems do not.

The foundation is being laid for the emergence of both wind and solar cells as cornerstones of the new energy economy.

The throwaway economy that has been evolving over the last half-century is an aberration, now itself headed for the junk heap of history.

Population growth is exceeding farmers' ability to keep up...Our oldest enemy, hunger, is again at the door.

Humanity's greatest challenge may soon be just making it to the next harvest.

Socialism failed because it couldn't tell the economic truth. Capitalism may fail because it couldn't tell the ecological truth.

I never realized just how many things I really hated until you walked out the door and out of my life.

She seemed to think that one of the perks of marriage was that it gave you rights of comment and intrusion over single people's love lives.

Thursday afternoon, the dark clouds closed in, and by Friday morning a heavy rain was falling. The mountain peaks were hazy sentinels, disappearing into misty fog that clung to the valley.

Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.

The morality of a [political] party must grow out of the conscience and the participation of the voters.

The stately Homes of England,How beautiful they stand!Amidst their tall ancestral trees,O'er all the pleasant land.

I don't see us winning the war. We have made enemies of one billion Muslims.

If we cannot live entirely like human beings, at least let us do everything in our power not to live entirely like animals.

Self-love is the most inhibited sin in the canon.

Women in leadership roles can help restore balance and wholeness to our communities.