We should conceive of ourselves not as rulers of Earth, but as highly powerful, conscious stewards: The Earth is given to us in trust, and we can screw it up or make it work well and sustainably.

None of us know our real names.

It was not power that corrupted people, but fools who corrupted power.

You can't get any movement larger than five people without including at least one flippin idiot.

We are here to inscribe ourselves on the universe, and it is not inappropriate to remind ourselves of this when blank slates are given us.

It's fragile what we know. It's gone every time we forget. Then someone has to learn it all over again.

It was a world of acts, and words had no more influence on acts than the sound of a waterfall has on the flow of the stream.