Assurance of hope is more than life, it is health, strength, power, vigor, activity, energy, manliness, beauty.
I will never shrink from speaking truth to power.
I hold a vision of this blue green planet, safe and in balance. At the end of the Fossil Fuel Era, we are emerging to a new reality. We are ready to make the next leap - as momentous as abolishing slavery or giving women the vote.
A patchwork solution of provincial targets is an admission of defeat and a statement that we have failed our children and grandchildren.
We have to do what we have to do. Miracles happen. The life force of this planet is very strong. Dandelions poke through sidewalks. We don't know enough to give up. We only know enough to know that we have to try to change the course of human events.
Those who take action have a disproportionate impact. The power of one is to move many.
There is not enough tea in the world to calm me.
After World War II the Republicans - the Wall Street crowd - were very worried about a depression coming back. They hated Franklin Roosevelt in that crowd, my father among them. And there was a great fear in '46 that we'd fall back into the pits. And they always wanted to break up the Roosevelt legislation.
You can't go wrong with some nuts. The key word is 'some. ' Eat them one at a time, not by the handful.
Pornography supplies the only really safe sex.
If you are walking backward, away from something you think is a mistake, you may be right in supposing it is a mistake, but for you to be walking backward is never right. You know what happens to people who walk backward. . . . We are meant to walk forward, not backward, and reaction is always a matter of walking backward.