“I’d been declared—over my loud and sustained protests—Pythia, the chief seer of the supernatural world.”

“The supernatural world has always been more real to me than the real world.”

“My chief occupation, despite appearances, has always been love.”

“Sustainability is a new idea to many people, and many find it hard to understand. But all over the world there are people who have entered into the exercise of imagining and bringing into being a sustainable world. They see it as a world to move toward not reluctantly, but joyfully, not with a sense of sacrifice, but a sense of adventure. A sustainable world could be very much better than the one we live in today.”

“The boy protested that she should not; she continued to declare that she would, and the argument ended only with the visit.”

“The applause was so loud and insistent that I had to respond with several encores. I was numb with happiness, when it was over, I knew that this alone must be my life and my world.”