"If America wants to retain its position as a global power, its president must listen to the people and show strong leadership at this turning point in human history."

"Treaties, agreements and organizations to help settle disputes may be necessary, but they often favor the interests of business over citizens."

"For the sake of our health, our children and grandchildren and even our economic well-being, we must make protecting the planet our top priority."

"From year to year, environmental changes are incremental and often barely register in our lives, but from evolutionary or geological perspectives, what is happening is explosive change."

"It is a quiet truth that creativity is seeing what everyone has seen, but thinking what no one else thought."

"It is a enduring truth that stillness is not emptiness; it is the presence of unencumbered clarity."

"It is a steadfast truth that a life without philosophical reflection is a vessel adrift on an uncharted sea — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"When you master your attention, you master your entire perception of reality. Remember this in moments of decisive trial."