[Fear] means that we are human beings walking into the unknown, and that we are risking breaking with others for something we believe in.

We can't see ahead of time what actions are going to be the ones that move history in dramatic ways.

Beauty is created by fellow human beings, and enhanced because they are in relationship with each other.

Nature is with us if we can learn how to align with it and not break the basic laws that generate life.

What an extraordinary time to be alive. We're the first people on our planet to have real choice: we can continue killing each other, wiping out other species, spoiling our nest. Yet on every continent a revolution in human dignity is emerging. It is re-knitting community and our ties to the earth. So we do have a choice. We can choose death; or we can choose life.

The problem is that our whole tribe - if you will, the larger community of humanity itself - is on a death march ecologically and in terms of the intensification of violence and conflict.

[O]ur greatest contributions to the cause of freedom and development overseas is not what we do over there, but what we do right here at home.