You stand out in the crowd only because you have these many, many carrying you on their shoulders.

An abusive relationship should be easy to identify though often one of the most difficult to end.

Dream of a world where children can laugh and play and not be blown up by a mine they thought was a toy.

I am passionately opposed to the death penalty for anyone . . . I think, myself, that it is an obscenity . . .

It is for real that injustice and oppression will not have the last word. There was a time when Hitler looked like he was going to vanquish all of Europe, and where is he now?

We give kudos to people who have succeeded. We don't care in what they succeeded as long as they succeeded. The worst thing that can happen to anybody in this cultural environment is to fail.

We can encourage more of our universities and municipalities, foundations, corporations, individuals and cultural institutions... to move their money out of the problem (fossil fuels) and into the solutions (renewable energy)