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

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.

The biggest threat to global stability is the potential for food crises in poor countries to cause government collapse.

[T]here can be a form of vanity in grief that is indulged rather than suffered.

Some things are not forgiveable. Deliberate cruelty is not forgiveable. It is the most unforgiveable thing in my opinion, and the one thing in which I have never, ever been guilty.

I really learned the power of the tube on Sesame Street and how it can influence a very young mind.

There are divers men who make a great show of loyalty, and pretend to such discretion in the hidden things they hear, that at the end folk come to put faith in them.

I'm a special drunkard... I drink too much.

[Out To Sea] began a relationship I had with [director] Martha Coolidge for a few years that was wonderful, and she certainly cast me in the best roles I've ever had in film.

A society is a group whose members have more relationships with one another then they do with outsiders.

Allow yourself to go and do it wrong. Don't expect to always get it right. It will prevent you from doing anything.

The men in the steel industry who sacrificed their all were nor merely aiding their fellows at home but were adding strength to the cause of their comrades in all industry.

In my experience of fights and fighting, it is invariably the aggressor who keeps getting everything wrong.