I think I could have been quite difficult to fathom as a youngster, this kid who didn't talk about himself very much.

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

With a small fraction of the hundreds of billions of dollars spent on the Iraq war, the US and Australia could ensure every starving, sunken-eyed child on the planet could be well fed, have clean water and sanitation and a local school to go to.

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

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

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

I will be Green until the day I die, if not for a long time after.