We people of the Earth exist because our potential was there in the Big Bang, 13.7 billion years ago, as the universe exploded into being.

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

So far as we know, Earth is the only planet which supports life, and it is the only planet on which we can survive. Our bodies and our minds are fashioned by it. Our hearts resonate with it. There will be little joy for the human spirit if we destroy the natural fabric of Earth with nothing left to do but go shopping. When we imagine the world a century from now, when we look our great grandchildren in the eye and see them smiling back at us because they know we cared for them, we smile too!

I have seen such an immense change from the total repression and criminality of homosexuality in my lifetime. It does make me much more buoyant and optimistic about the future. If that change can occur in that time there's hope for many other changes.

There's a presumption that somehow you calculate beforehand whether something is going to be good politically or not. I simply don't.

Real life security and contentment come not from putting a gun in the cupboard, but from taking a role in the world's future.

As a Green, my goal is to put a smile on the face of the coming generations.