Behind every successful man there’s a lot of unsuccessful years.
The overarching factor to me is if we can’t be kind to each other, we won’t be kind to the planet.
I have never met a person in whom I did not see myself reflected.
I think I could have been quite difficult to fathom as a youngster, this kid who didn’t talk about himself very much.
I will be Green until the day I die, if not for a long time after.
For comprehensive Earth action, an all-of-the-Earth representative democracy is required. That is, a global parliament.
One-time Guinness World Record holder for Yo-Yo endurance.
Renewable energy is proven technology, the price is dropping, the rest of the world is going that way, that’s where our investment should be going as well.
As a Green, my goal is to put a smile on the face of the coming generations.
I didn’t want to be a shock absorber; I wanted to deliver the shock.
We must have an expansionary vision, one that captures the imagination and diversity of the whole community, one which benefits a nation which has moved beyond the basics of literacy and numeracy and which wants to develop a learning culture.
The government’s living in its own cloud cuckoo land and it’s a cloud of greenhouse gases.
I am not a conventionally religious man, but in the wilderness I have come closest to finding myself and knowing the universe and accepting God – by which I mean accepting all that I don’t know.
I am aware that one should always make room for renewal in politics. A democracy is the healthier for the turnover of the depth of talent there is in its community.
I’m a very great non-violent character. I would never resort to violence to change anything.
I’m worried about the traditional media, but I think the new media is a plus for democracy.
We people of the Earth exist because our potential was there in the Big Bang, 13.7 billion years ago, as the universe exploded into being.
There’s a presumption that somehow you calculate beforehand whether something is going to be good politically or not. I simply don’t.
The pursuit of eternity is no longer the prerogative of the gods – it is the business of us all, here and now.
I’ve always thought, and it gets tested at times, that I have a great faith in the fundamental goodness of human beings.