Low carbon, resource efficient solutions and halting then reversing population growth are two sides of the same coin
When a reporter sits down at the typewriter, he’s nobody’s friend.
Every American election summons the individual voter to weigh the past against the future.
The President's decisions make the weather, and if he is great enough, change the climate, too.
Although Christianity has never been the guarantee of a democratic state anywhere in the world, no democracy has ever thrived successfully for any period of time outside of Christian influence.
A liberal is a person who believes that water can be made to run uphill. A conservative is someone who believes everybody should pay for his water. I'm somewhere in between: I believe water should be free, but that water flows downhill.
The best time to listen to a politician is when he's on a stump on a street corner in the rain late at night when he's exhausted. Then he doesn't lie.
Human beings of any age need to approve of themselves; the bad times in history come when they cannot.
The whole can be greater than the sum of it's parts, that we all have something to put in the pie to make it better, and that the collaborative interaction works.
If you're a simple person today, and want to live simply, that is awfully seditious. And to advise people to live simply is more seditious still.
[In the moment of reading writer and reader] are both briefly their best selves, or at least better selves. A flawed human being writes something and 60 years later a reader picks up the book and something in them rises to meet it.