“The woman looked out at the madness of the world and dared to hope. Her eyes were burning coals of stars.”

“All photos speak a thousand words. This one contained a library.”

“We've got to make change our national pastime and hold protests more regularly than weekend parties.”

“As long as we don't cut off our hearts, the inner workings of the universe illuminate before us.”

“No one's life made sense on paper. You cannot condense a person into facts.”

“A freedom given up is not so easily regained.”

“I don't think that God says, "Go to church and pray all day and everything will be fine." No. For me God says, "Go out and make the changes that need to be made, and I'll be there to help you.”

“Our work is not about transcending this world to get to a better place; our work is to be fully present here; to heal ourselves, and our planet in the spirit of service and compassion.”

“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.”

“This is rather as if you imagine a puddle waking up one morning and thinking, 'This is an interesting world I find myself in--an interesting hole I find myself in--fits me rather neatly, doesn't it...”

“We all deserve a love as deep as the oceans. Let us keep our oceans clean and enjoyable for us all.”

“Science fiction is when we see into the future of our planet, fantasy is when we believe humanity will survive.”

“Beneath Albrights office, the colliery sprawled across the hillside, red brick buildings scattered as though hurled from a great height, a hotchpotch of mismatched structures spattered on the valle...”

“Perhaps times definition of coal is the diamond.”

“Even coal shimmers in the light”