We can enjoy a self-assurance that doesn't depend on the state of things outside ourselves, be it downturns or booms or whatever.

People want much the same things, but they have been formed by history to have a particular perception of the other.

We seek a restorative justice, not a retributive justice.

I'm not an optimist. I'm a prisoner of hope.

People almost always imagine that life is going to be better in town and that the streets of the town are paved with gold.

We were made to enjoy music, to enjoy beautiful sunsets, to enjoy looking at the billows of the sea and to be thrilled with a rose that is bedecked with dew… Human beings are actually created for the transcendent, for the sublime, for the beautiful, for the truthful... and all of us are given the task of trying to make this world a little more hospitable to these beautiful things.

People of conscience need to break their ties with corporations financing the injustice of climate change.