“Share our similarities, celebrate our differences.”

The Ethical Brain (2005)

Source: A Life of Erwin Schrödinger

Bodhi Tree lecture (1999)
Context: The Goddess religion asserts that the earth is alive, and that everything on the earth is part of a living being. We believe that you can celebrate life in many different images and forms, that life moves in cycles of birth and growth and death and rebirth, and that the same spirit moves through nature, through the cycles of the seasons, through the birth and growth and death of plants and animals, and through our lives as human beings. There is a multiplicity of images that you can draw upon for understanding and power, but the reason we focus on the goddess is partly to counterbalance the 5,000 years worth of focus on male holy images, and partly to affirm that bringing life into the world is sacred. Our goal is not to get out of the world or to get out of life, but to integrate it, to celebrate it, to embrace it fully, and to embrace all the different cycles within it

Source: The World We Have: A Buddhist Approach to Peace and Ecology

"Ukrainas FN-ambassadør til VG: Vil ikke være over med en fredsavtale" https://www.vg.no/nyheter/utenriks/i/V93WK6/ukrainas-fn-ambassadoer-til-vg-vil-ikke-vaere-over-med-en-fredsavtale (In Norwegian), VG, 31 March 2022

2017, Farewell Address (January 2017)
Context: It falls to each of us to be those anxious, jealous guardians of our democracy; to embrace the joyous task we've been given to continually try to improve this great nation of ours. Because for all our outward differences, we, in fact, all share the same proud title, the most important office in a democracy: Citizen. Citizen.