“We was young and we was dumb, but we had heart.”

“Is it a crime to fight for what is mine?” -Tupac Shakur

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.

The Greens will continue to champion a fairer society rather than simply the economy and to champion the parliament rather than simply the stock exchange .

In securing the future of the planet, we secure happiness for ourselves. One of the aims of the Greens is to turn around the tide of pessimism amongst the young people of the world.

Globally the Greens have arisen like a spontaneous combustion, a reaction to the narrow-minded state-backed exploitation of resources and wealth for a few at the expense of the many.

There are better alternatives, ... Australia should be exporting its solar technology, not its uranium.

Every time I get a bit worried about having made some second rate choices in life I go back and read about the Suffragettes or William Wilberforce, people who were 'wrong' in their own time, and think, 'Ah well.

The future will either be green or not at all.

We are all born bonded to nature; that's why we put depictions of flowers and forests, rather than bulldozers or log piles, on our walls.

Exxon, Coca-Cola, BHP Billiton and News Corporation have much more say in organising the global agenda than the planet's 5 billion mature-age voters without a ballot box.

Behind every successful man there's a lot of unsuccessful years.

The pursuit of eternity is no longer the prerogative of the gods - it is the business of us all, here and now.

We calculate the amount spent [by Brethren and other anti- Green groups] was between $500,000 and $1 million - that's a huge amount for a state election campaign in Tasmania.

The government's living in its own cloud cuckoo land and it's a cloud of greenhouse gases.

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.

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.

The overarching factor to me is if we can't be kind to each other, we won't be kind to the planet.

Australia must prioritise education spending. It is not a question of whether or not we have the money, it is a question of how we choose to spend it.

Real life security and contentment come not from putting a gun in the cupboard, but from taking a role in the world's future.

The reality is that if we in this rich, lucky quarter of the planet cannot make a stand for the 30 million other species we share this planet with, let alone our own species, then who can?

“Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.”

“When angry count to ten before you speak. If very angry, count to one hundred.”

“We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.”

“Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add ‘within the limits of the law’ because law is often but the tyrant’s will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual.”

“The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.”

“Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.”

“Experience hath shown, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.”

“The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.”

“Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories.”

“I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.”

“Good wine is a necessity of life for me.”

“But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine.”

“A Bill of Rights is what the people are entitled to against every government, and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inference.”

“Do not bite at the bait of pleasure, till you know there is no hook beneath it.”

“He who knows best knows how little he knows.”

“Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blind-folded fear.”

“I’m a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.”

“We in America do not have government by the majority. We have government by the majority who participate.”

“History, in general, only informs us what bad government is.”

“Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time, who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done, if we are always doing.”

“I had rather be shut up in a very modest cottage with my books, my family and a few old friends, dining on simple bacon, and letting the world roll on as it liked, than to occupy the most splendid post, which any human power can give.”

“If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.”

“There is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people.”

“When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.”

“Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.”

“Every day is lost in which we do not learn something useful. Man has no nobler or more valuable possession than time.”

“Be polite to all, but intimate with few.”

“I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.”