The denser places get, the lower the amount of energy people use to get around it.

Copenhagen has done a remarkable job creating streets that are focused on bicycles and pedestrians.

I think there's a gigantic generation gap in terms of how people understand the Internet and how much they think technology is an important factor in social change.

Optimism is a political act. Those who benefit from the status quo are perfectly happy for us to think nothing is going to get any better. In fact, these days, cynicism is obedience.

Urban retrofitting: creating different sorts of spaces and uses out of places that are already there.

If mass media, social isolation in the suburbs, alienating workplaces and long car commutes create a bunker mentality, the Internet does the opposite.

By looking at climate change as a clean energy generation problem, we're setting ourselves up not to solve it.

It's not just enough to survive. We've got to make something better than what we've got.

We have to craft new political realities, not only in places like India, Afghanistan, Kenya, Pakistan, but here at home as well. Another world is possible.

Cabbies in particular seem to like discussing the fate the Earth.

Saying the Tech Bloom is not commercially driven is like saying Mother Teresa had an interest in the poor.

Love every child without condition, listen with an open heart, get to know who they are, what they love, and follow more often than you lead.

In torment, there was release.In the darkness, there was light.In solitude, there were companions.

It is easy to have love affairs than to solve math problems but it is easy to learn if you trust God

Every night when I go to bed, I hope that I may never wake again, and every morning renews my grief.

I don't have much positive to say about motor neurone disease. But it taught me not to pity myself because others were worse off, and to get on with what I could still do.

How can we protect homeland security unless the government stops the invasion of illegal aliens?

We may get a paycheck, but over time what we sense is the dying of our souls.

Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

So long as there is a human being who does not know Jesus Christ, I am his debtor to serve him until he does.