And when I think about that sunrise that I woke up to that morning, I just feel like I got as close to nowhere as I could get, and found out that it was more of a place than anywhere I've been in a long time.

We've got to keep 6 billion people happy without destroying our planet. It's the biggest challenge we've ever faced....but we're taking it on.

Marriage can be a religious thing. It can also be a secular thing. And guess what? Not everyone in the world is of the same religion. Preventing gay people from getting married is not an expression of religious freedom. It's an expression of religious oppression.

I think it's pretty ridiculous to sit back and think that we've changed the horse so much, without realizing that they have changed us an awful lot too.

Humanity is good. Some people are terrible and broken, but humanity is good. I believe that.

Bravery is not strength in the face of a far lesser foe. Bravery is the exact opposite of that.

What does it mean that social structures among young people are so often predicated upon trying really, really hard to appear to not-be-trying?