Everyone's heard about the military-industrial complex, but they know very little about the medical-industrial complex...(in) a medical arms race.

The reason that everybody likes planning is that nobody has to do anything.

After years of struggle, the U.S. Supreme Court today has made same-sex marriage a reality in California ... I have directed the California Department of Public Health to advise the state's counties that they must begin issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples in California

I see the day in our own lifetime that reverence for the natural systems, the oceans, the rainforests, the soil, the grasslands, and all other living things will be so strong that no narrow ideology based upon politics or economics will overcome it.

Nuclear power will be the Vietnam issue of the 1980s.

The farmers markets were another step to giving people an opportunity to take more power over their own lives-and also to provide another outlet for organic produce. That is important because the production and distribution of food is increasingly being monopolized and controlled by large corporate structures, large financial structures.

Life simply is. It follows its course. Give yourself to the moment. Let life reveal itself to you.