Our true destiny...is a world built from the bottom up by competent citizens living in solid communities, engaged in and by their places.

Real security, in other words, is inseparable from issues of energy policy; education; public health; preservation of soils, forests, and waters; and broadly based, sustainable prosperity.

A summons home to the nature that nourishes the best human qualities of creativity, intelligence, connection, and compassion.

"Our experience of the world is being impoverished to the extent that it is being rendered artificial and prepackaged."

Wearing your feelings on your sleeve will end up being a chip on your shoulder.

If we can say no to all our worries, nothing can stop our greatness in life.

And the rigidity of the material with which we have to compose, is a more formidable opponent than Lasker or Capablanca. Because these lifeless opponents do not have any moments of human weakness!

You don't win with X's and O's. What you win with is people.

It would be foolish, in forming our expectations, to attach great weight to matters which are very uncertain.

Next time I tell you someone from Texas should not be president of the United States, please pay attention.

One of the tests that I frequently use in an interaction is I push on the idea and what I'm looking for is both flexibility & persistence.

When His Holiness won the Nobel Peace Prize, there was a quantum leap. He is not seen as solely a Tibetan anymore; he belongs to the world.

A pen went scribbling along. When it tried to write love, it broke.

Do not banish reason for inequality; but let your reason serve to make the truth appear where it seems hid, and hide the false seems true.