“The global environment crisis is, as we say in Tennessee, real as rain, and I cannot stand the thought of leaving my children with a degraded earth and a diminished future.”

We have a planetary emergency. We have to find a way to create, in the generation of those alive today, a sense of generational mission.

Making consumer choices that reward eco-friendly products and companies is a great way to start.

Our new technologies, combined with our numbers, have made us, collectively, a force of nature.

When it comes to climate, we can all make a big difference.

Civil disobedience has an honourable history, and when the urgency and moral clarity cross a certain threshold, then I think that civil disobedience is quite understandable, and it has a role to play.

The will to act is a renewable resource.

The struggle to save the global environment is in one way much more difficult than the struggle to vanquish Hitler, for this time the war is with ourselves. We are the enemy, just as we have only ourselves as allies.

We can believe in the future and work to achieve it and preserve it, or we can whirl blindly on, behaving as if one day there will be no children to inherit our legacy. The choice is ours; the earth is in balance.

Consider what kind of car you get. Buy cars and other products that have the least impact environmentally.

I have always been fascinated with those who try to look over the horizon and see things that are coming at us.

The good news is, we have everything we need now to respond to the challenge of global warming. We have all the technologies we need, more are being developed…. But we should not wait, we cannot wait, we must not wait.

Our world faces a true planetary emergency. I know the phrase sounds shrill, and I know it’s a challenge to the moral imagination.

A zebra does not change its spots.

In a time of darkness, you don’t curse the darkness, you light a candle.

At some point, a false belief collides with physical reality.

We are running out of time, we must have a planetary solution to a planetary crisis.

The facts of life are that a child who has seen war cannot be compared with a child who doesn’t know what war is except from television.

There is a world up ahead where people are not targeted for beliefs or bodies, where peace isn’t a fantasy but reality. Build the world you hope your children will see.

See, my children, a person who is in a state of sin is always sad. Whatever he does, he is weary and disgusted with every thing; while he who is at peace with God is always happy, always joyous. . . Oh, beautiful life! Oh, beautiful death!

As a woman, especially when you have children, one gets so good at soldiering on – almost too good.

When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.

We must teach our children to resolve their conflicts with words, not weapons.

We’re all a nation that believes we’re children of the same god.

If we call ourselves children of God, then others are also children of God.