“I am old enough to know that a red carpet is just a rug.”

Our way of life is at stake, our grandchildren are at stake, the future of civilization is at stake.

Every nation has a moral obligation to safeguard the future.

Believe in the power of your own voice. The more noise you make, the more accountability you demand from your leaders, the more our world will change for the better.

Our insatiable drive to rummage deep beneath the surface of the earth is a willful expansion of our dysfunctional civilization into Nature.

We know that he has stored secret supplies of biological and chemical weapons throughout his country.

I’m going to be focused on doing everything I possibly can to help solve the climate crisis.

A low voter turnout is an indication of fewer people going to the polls.

In order to solve the climate crisis, we need to solve the democracy crisis.

Hurricane Sandy is a disturbing sign of things to come. We must heed this warning and act quickly to solve the climate crisis. Dirty energy makes dirty weather.

Mother Nature does not do bailouts.

Today I challenge our nation to commit to producing 100 percent of our electricity from renewable energy and truly clean carbon-free sources within 10 years.

Take it from me, every vote counts.

I think the cost of energy will come down when we make this transition to renewable energy.

Take it from me: Elections matter.

Atheists have just as much of a right to the public discourse as any … people of any religious faith in this country.

The Congress is virtually incapable of passing any reforms unless they first get permission from the powerful special interests who are most affected by the proposal.

Measure your growth in grace by your sensitiveness to sin.

Stock market bubbles don’t grow out of thin air. They have a solid basis in reality, but reality as distorted by a misconception.

I’m a California girl, right? I grew up with that farm-to-table dining before it was sweeping the nation.

Spiritual growth involves giving up the stories of your past so the universe can write a new one.

In order to grow, you must accept new responsibilities, no matter how uncertain you may feel or how unprepared you are to deal with them.

Each life is made up of mistakes and learning, waiting and growing, practicing patience and being persistent.

Everything that comes our way is so we can grow and evolve, and if we look at it like that, then we have the great opportunity to step into who we always wanted to be.

Owning your curves means being confident – actually being confident – in your own skin. Growing up was tricky for me, it was so hard to shop with all of my friends and not being able to fit into the tiny clothes they were wearing.