Politics hates a vacuum. If it isn't filled with hope, someone will fill it with fear.

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.

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.

In the darkness, he is invisible, but I can still feel him beside me. Sometimes you don't have to see something to know it is there.

I think that we need mythology. We need a bedrock of story and legend in order to live our lives coherently.

You are a den of vipers and thieves. I intend to rout you out, and by the eternal God, I will rout you out.

Without community, there is no liberation.

You reincarnate forever because you exist forever. You can't die. You can't be born, your essence that is. You are on a big wheel.

Dinosaurs replace their teeth throughout their life. And T. rex replaced all of their teeth every year.

I'm trying to be me and embrace all the parts of me that have grown up, listened to more music and soaked up more influences.

I was sort of caught up in my own web of illusion.

I thought 'Borat' was a breakthrough comedy, because it was really funny. It wasn't some studio-produced script with 14 writers.

We cannot really think in one way and act in another.