The reality is that if we in this rich, lucky quarter of the planet cannot make a stand for the 30 million other species we share this planet with, let alone our own species, then who can?

Behind every successful man there's a lot of unsuccessful years.

I am aware that one should always make room for renewal in politics. A democracy is the healthier for the turnover of the depth of talent there is in its community.

Exxon, Coca-Cola, BHP Billiton and News Corporation have much more say in organising the global agenda than the planet's 5 billion mature-age voters without a ballot box.

We are all born bonded to nature; that's why we put depictions of flowers and forests, rather than bulldozers or log piles, on our walls.

The future will either be green or not at all.

I didn't want to be a shock absorber; I wanted to deliver the shock.

There are better alternatives... Australia should be exporting its solar technology, not its uranium.

In securing the future of the planet, we secure happiness for ourselves. One of the aims of the Greens is to turn around the tide of pessimism amongst the young people of the world.

The Greens will continue to champion a fairer society rather than simply the economy and to champion the parliament rather than simply the stock exchange .

Globally the Greens have arisen like a spontaneous combustion, a reaction to the narrow-minded state-backed exploitation of resources and wealth for a few at the expense of the many.

It’s not about working for money, it’s about having money work for you.

Courage is doing something you need to do that might get you hurt.

I have some scars... lots of internal ones. But they're all scabbed over.

Every man must die, Jon Snow. But first he must live.

While there's been much progress on terrorism, there's still much work to do and it is very important that the countries work together in order to address this threat together.

We always use plywood rather than MDF for structural stuff for the same reasons [stability].

The challenge when you think about product distribution is: how are you competing for potential customers or potential members time?

We're in this period where we're getting good data rates. I would say we're getting data rates that are like the data rates we got when we launched RealAudio in 1995.

Fat girls aren’t real people.

The gospel is for lifeboats, not showboats, and a man must make up his mind which boat he is going to operate.