The Earth doesn't care what we need; Mother Nature doesn't negotiate.

We can choose this moment of crisis to ask and answer the big questions of society's evolution — like, what do we want to be when we grow up?

If you want to change the world, change it through the market

Our system - of debt-fueled economic growth, of ineffective democracy, of overloading planet Earth - is eating itself alive.

It takes a good crisis to get us going. When we feel fear and we fear loss we are capable of quite extraordinary things.

Thanks to those pesky laws of physics, when things aren't sustainable, they stop.

The four words that will define this century: The Earth is full.

It's scary to make friends, it's scarier to stand up for a friend, but it's scariest to not be a friend for fear will be your only company.

Chris. What do you want, child?"I sighed and walked another three steps forward. I stared into his eyes and spoke the one word that terrified him, "Democracy.

If you are upset or nervous, that is proof you lack something. Do not be sad or gloomy - foster virtue, feel compassion, and you can save even devils.

I think that literature quite often emerges from areas where there has been a lack of articulation, like women's writing.

Indie film isn’t dead. It just grew up.

This 'users are idiots, and are confused by functionality' mentality of Gnome is a disease. If you think your users are idiots, only idiots will use it.

Once a person is determined to help themselves, there is nothing that can stop them.

When I do things I shouldn't do, my mother says I need a new pair of glasses -- that I should be be looking differently at the choices I make.

A man may write at any time, if he will set himself doggedly to it.

I want to be alone ... I just want to be alone.