change starts at the bottom. I think we're disempowered by the idea that it starts at the top, when really change is like a tree. It does start at the bottom.

why is the word 'qualified' applied only to those who have to be more so?

I no longer believe the conservative message that children are naturally selfish and destructive creatures who need civilizing by hierarchies or painful controls. On the contrary, I believe that hierarchy and painful controls create destructive people. And I no longer believe the liberal message that children are blank slates on which society can write anything. On the contrary, I believe a unique core self is born into every human being; the result of millennia of environment and heredity combined in an unpredictable way that could never happen before or again.

Every revolution begins as consciousness because some group of people has to imagine change.

I feel that the people I see in the media are sometimes more real than I am, which is utter bullshit.

A movement happens when people are inspired by somebody, but they do it themselves. You don't wait for someone else. You do it yourself.

The whole idea is not to figure out what you should do that will matter, but to make each thing you do reflect the values you want, because we don't know what's going to matter in the future