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

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.

For comprehensive Earth action, an all-of-the-Earth representative democracy is required. That is, a global parliament.

The pursuit of eternity is no longer the prerogative of the gods - it is the business of us all, here and now.

I have never met a person in whom I did not see myself reflected.

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?

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.