The thing about global warming is that you can address it on a great number of levels - in fact you have to.

Climate change is the single biggest thing that humans have ever done on this planet. The one thing that needs to be bigger is our movement to stop it.

The technology we need most badly is the technology of community, the knowledge about how to cooperate to get things done.

Very few people on earth ever get to say: 'I am doing, right now, the most important thing I could possibly be doing.' If you'll join this fight that's what you'll get to say

what you do every day is what forms your mind and precious few of us can or would spend most days outdoors.

In 50 years, no one will care about the fiscal cliff or the Euro crisis. They'll just ask, "So the Arctic melted, and then what did you do?"

Global warming is no longer a philosophical threat, no longer a future threat, no longer a threat at all. It's our reality.

Advent: the time to listen for footsteps - you can't hear footsteps when you're running yourself.

We've been given a warning by science, and a wake-up call by nature; it is up to us now to heed them.

The real negotiation is between humans on the one hand and chemistry and physics on the other. And chemistry and physics, unfortunately, don't bargain.

We can either save the planet from catastrophic warming, or protect fossil fuel CEOs. Not both. Do the math(s)

Be passionately devoted to your dreams.

Isn’t it time that, loving, we freed ourselves from the beloved, and, trembling, endured:as the arrow endures the bow, so as to be, in its flight, something more than itself?

Compared to Eternity, The seconds of "Now" are more valuable than all the money and valuables in the world combined.

I wanted two girls, " she said. "You and your sister. I wanted exactly what I had. Other people's children are too hard

Inspiration works on the same sense as humans, quite generous yet impatient. When it calls, better respond there and then or it moves shop.

If you really want to love Jesus, first learn to suffer, because suffering teaches you to love.

Are you experienced? Have you ever been experienced?

I would much rather be found guilty of making a serious mistake in judgment, than to be accused of being even a little bit insincere.

Have you murdered anyone in the last day, week, month, year, decade? Probably not. Then don't worry about it. Give yourself a break. You're probably a really fine person.

Were I to commence my administration again, the first question I would ask respecting a candidate would be, Does he use ardent spirits?