Kindness and gentleness never had a gender, and neither did empathy.

I'm a big fan of the vigor of civil society, political engagement, and public life in many parts of Latin America.

Revolution is as unpredictable as an earthquake and as beautiful as spring. Its coming is always a surprise, but its nature should not be.

To hope is to give yourself to the future - and that commitment to the future is what makes the present inhabitable.

I grew up with landscape as a recourse, with the possibility of exiting the horizontal realm of social relations for a vertical alignment with earth and sky, matter and spirit. Vast open spaces speak best to this craving, the spaces I myself first found in the desert and then in the western grasslands.

There is so much information that our ability to focus on any piece of it is interrupted by other information, so that we bathe in information but hardly absorb or analyse it. Data are interrupted by other data before we've thought about the first round, and contemplating three streams of data at once may be a way to think about none of them.

The things we want are transformative, and we don’t know or only think we know what is on the other side of that transformation Never to get lost is not to live.