The fossil reserves that have already been discovered exceed what can ever be safely used. Yet companies spend half a trillion dollars each year searching for more fuel. They should redirect this money toward developing clean energy solutions

It is by standing up for the rights of girls and women that we truly measure up as men.

I suppose being the kind of creatures we [people] are, we like to censor the past, and are selective, or want to be selective about the things that we remember. If you want to destroy people, destroy their memory, destroy their history.

My father always used to say, "Don't raise your voice. Improve your argument."

When the humility of someone is undermined, whether I like it or not mine is undermined as well.

I can't for the life of me imagine that God would say, 'I will punish you because you are black; you should have been white. I will punish you because you are a woman; you should have been a man. I punish you because you are homosexual; you ought to have been heterosexual. I can't, I can't for the life of me believe that that is how God sees things.

Naming a center after a person who is still alive can make it seem that an individual somehow on their own was able to accomplish what he accomplished.