The Earth is not dying-it is being killed. And the people who are killing it have names and addresses.

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There are some people who could hear you speak a thousand words, and still not understand you... And there are others who will understand - without you even speaking a word.

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Giving advice isn't as risky as people say. Few ever take it anyway.

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We will either defend the rights of people and the earth, and for that we have to dismantle the rights that corporations have assigned to themselves, or corporations will in the next three decades destroy this planet, in terms of human possibilities.

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I don't want to have lived in vain like most people. I want to be useful or bring enjoyment to all people, even those I've never met. I want to go on living even after my death! ― Anne Frank

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History doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme. — Mark Twain

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As a writer, I'm more interested in what people tell themselves happened rather than what actually happened.

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The worst thing is not that the world is unfree, but that people have unlearned their liberty.

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I need a spiritual connection - I can make changes, but I can't make miracles - and I need people around me who'll support me and believe in me and tell me the truth and not let me deceive myself into avoiding the what's scary and hard and necessary.

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Some people read their Bibles in Hebrew, some in Greek; I like to read mine in the Holy Ghost.

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