Most of you didn't think that helping people share books would be a subversive act...Yet the fact is that you have chosen a profession that has become radical.

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

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

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.

Travel, leave everything, copy the birds. The home is one of civilization’s sadnesses.

We are not educated well enough to perform the necessary act of intelligently selecting our leaders.

That anyone who possesses power has a tendency to abuse it is an eternal truth. They tend to go as far as the barriers will allow.

Thoughtful people of different political philosophies can disagree, but in a very agreeable manner.

Don't spin your wheels and stress. Take a deep breath, center yourself and make a plan.

The majority of people have no understanding of the things with which they daily meet, nor, when instructed, do they have any right knowledge of them, although to themselves they seem to have.

Memory is redundant: it repeats signs so that the city can begin to exist.

You can't close your eyes to the lies perpetrated by dangerous fools / 'cos they're handing out rules

Their lives ran in circles so small They thought they'd seen it all

Remember that just because you hit bottom doesn't mean you have to stay there.