But if by some freak of history communism had caught up with this country, I would have been one of the first people thrown in jail.

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.

Pull up a chair. Take a taste. Come join us. Life is so endlessly delicious.

I know now it is children who accept life

Absence Is To Love, What The Wind Is To Fire, When It's a Small Fire The Wind Kills It But When It's a Real Fire It Intensifies It

You got to use what you got to get just what you want.

There is no vestige of a beginning, no prospect of an end.

The level of violence on the planet today is no longer sustainable.

Dinner's in one hour. If you're not back, sitting at the table, I'll beat you all unconscious with a spatula.

The state of marriage is one that requires more virtue and constancy than any other; it is a perpetual exercise in mortification.

He who has made a fair compact with poverty is rich.

You see, the thing about dreams is that it’s never really too late to make them come true.