Alienation is perhaps the most effective tool of control in America, and every reminder of our real connectedness weakens that tool.

Civil disobedience is an act of love.

What one person can do is to plant the seeds of love and outrage in the hearts of a movement. And if those hearts are fertile ground, those seeds of love and outrage will grow into a revolution.

Our security doesn't come from turning away from the hard stuff; it comes from the knowledge that we can handle it.

Until our leaders take seriously their responsibility to pass on a healthy and just world to the next generation, I will continue this fight.

Respond to stressful times by turning towards each other, rather than away from each other.

We need actions that are really coming from people's souls.

The reality is not that I lack respect for the law; it's that I have greater respect for justice.

It's really hard to change the world when your first priority is making sure that the little world around yourself doesn't change.

I don't think a worship of nature is necessary to mount a really strong defense of the environment.

We think we have no power when in fact we have more than enough power.

I feel sorry for people who only know comic books through movies. I really do.

You cannot put straight in others what is warped in yourself.

There is nothing so well known as that we should not expect something for nothing - but we all do and call it Hope.

If you can maintain that integrity in whatever you do, you can't go wrong.

I love nature, I love the landscape, because it is so sincere. It never cheats me. It never jests. It is cheerfully, musically earnest. I lie and relie on the earth.

We're not prisoners of the past.

Let's throw it on the wall and see if it sticks.

As for the British churchman, he goes to church as he goes to the bathroom, with the minimum of fuss and no explanation if he can help it.

Go to the moon, that's my dream.

The place was built on the premise that people want to gamble, and they may as well do it here. They look after their clientele, and, hell, they treat me like I'm one of their family.