Being mad is activating. Being sad can lead to hopelessness. I'm not hopeless. I'm very hopeful.

I believe that it's vital for children and teens to be educated, to be given information to help them understand the impacts humans are having on our water, soil, and air.

It's incredibly disturbing to me that humans are disrupting pretty much every single living system on the planet.

Without information, there can be no real understanding of the ramifications of our choices.

Education, the free flow of information, is key for our personal and societal growth. It all comes back to education.

Money and stuff aren't what makes us happy. It's strong connections within families and friends, communities of people that truly care about one another.

We have spent the better part of the last fifty years being inundated by advertising, being told that we will be happier if we get more stuff. But that's been backfiring recently.

The imbalances in the climate have been brought on by the incessant push for more and more immediate wealth.

As much as it's awful to learn about all the greedy and selfish decisions that some people make, I know there are many more people who have good intentions.

Years ago, after I'd answered several questions from a group of teens, one of them asked how I could stay optimistic and keep on going. I answered that instead of getting sad, I get mad.

What he knows now is that guilt isn’t the only reason people commit suicide. Sometimes you can just get bored with afternoon TV.

The intellectually-inclined biographers stray from the point that the message is directed through the spoken word at the broad masses and not writing to an inbred, self-adoring intellectual e

There is a sense that things, if you keep positive and optimistic about what can be done, do work out.

Our goal in Iraq is victory. Our goal is for a young democracy to be able to sustain itself, govern itself, and defend itself and serve as an ally in the war on terror.

Remember one rule, no rule.

Progress consists only in the greater clarification of answers to the basic questions of life.

We're in 'Jurassic Park' territory. If we go to the zoo in the future, we'll have zoos for extinct animals.

If you have white walls, human beings look better in a room than if you have red walls.

I don't owe no one no obligation, and no one owe me none so every 'ting is fine.

I want to have fun. And I want to enjoy what I'm doing.