According to my definition of God, I'm not an atheist. Because I think God is everything. Whenever I open my eyes I'm looking at God. Whenever I'm listening to something I'm listening to God.

I want to turn the clock back to when people lived in small villages and took care of each other.

Do you know the difference between education and experience? Education is when you read the fine print; experience is what you get when you don't.

Some of my ancestors were religious dissenters who came to America over three hundred years ago. Others were abolitionists in New England in the eighteen forties and fifties.

It's a very important thing to learn to talk to people you disagree with.

I tell kids, don't trust the media. The media with their emphasis on fame is helping to destroy this country, helping destroy the human race. It's the plug-in drug.

Shh. Listen to the sounds that surround you. Notice the pitches, the volume, the timbre, the many lines of counterpoint. As light taught Monet to paint, the earth may be teaching you music.

Songs are funny things. They can slip across borders. Proliferate in prisons. Penetrate hard shells. I always believed that the right song at the right moment could change history.

This world is so full of hypocrisy, the only way you can be honest is to be a hermit.

Long live teachers of children, because they can show children how they can save the world.

If it can’t be reduced, reused, repaired, rebuilt, refurbished, refinished, resold, recycled or composted, then it should be restricted, redesigned or removed from production.

No power and no treasure can outweigh the extension of our knowledge.

Some books must be sipped slowly like a strong bourbon. Most books must be devoured more than once because as you age you distill more.

A peaceful heart forgives, and forgiveness will transform our lives and our planet.

Pray and seek for strength to change our circumstances rather than praying for our circumstances to be changed

Against the persecution of a tyrant the godly have no remedy but prayer.

And it's not that going out for a hack is wrong or bad, I certainly don't view it as that; it's just that there's something about the dressage, being put through your paces, that makes you better.

We cannot let our respect for the FBI blind us from the fact the FBI has sometimes come up short of our expectations.

If you want a friend, you don't buy a friend, Eric, you earn a friend through love and trust and respect.

I love to consider an Infidel, whether distinguished by the title of deist, atheist, or free-thinker.