I think of Wangari Mathai in Kenya. If she started out saying she wanted to plant 20 million trees, she would have been laughed at. In fact, the foresters and the government did laugh at her. They said, "Villagers? Un-schooled villagers? Planting trees? No, no, no, it takes foresters." So she planted trees anyway.

No society has fulfilled its democratic promise if people go hungry... If some go without food they have surely been deprived of all power. The existence of hunger belies the existence of democracy.

I like to think of power back in its Latin root, its meaning comes from posse - to be able.

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

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

What gave her [Diane Wilson] the courage? If you look at someone like Diane, it's easy to say, well I could never be like that. But we don't know. We do know that it's possible for a woman, who didn't grow up as a world changer, to find it in herself to take a stand.

How we frame the world - how we talk about it and define it - affects how we see things and how we live.