In my 20s, I used to cry about why I wasn’t thinner or prettier – but I want to add that I also used to cry about things like: ‘I wish my hair would grow faster. I wish I had different shoes’…I was an idiot…It’s a decade of tears.

In the past, human progress had to come at the cost of the environment. If we wanted energy, we had to burn wood or we had to burn fossil fuels. If we wanted to grow more food, we had to expand farmland, often at the cost of forests. But technology and innovation means we're very quickly decoupling these impacts, such that this conflict is no longer true.

The hour has come for a new generation to lead the Democratic Congress that I so deeply respect.

If you don't know what you're living for, you haven't yet lived.

To say you have no choice is to relieve yourself of responsibility.

There’s an interesting trend that occurs in times of mounting pressure and high uncertainty, which is that it’s a natural human tendency to seek out people that agree with us, that are similar to us because it’s a source of comfort in a world that’s so rapidly changing.

Stumbling is not falling

A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything.

Challenge yourself. It's the only path which leads to growth