Capitalism is destroying the earth.

Teachers, I believe, are the most responsible and important members of society because their professional efforts affect the fate of the earth.

You're going to have to change the priorities of your life, if you love this planet.

Patriotism is nationalism, and always leads to war.

It is clear to me that unless we connect directly with the earth, we will not have the faintest clue why we should save it.

The problem with addicted people, communities, corporations, or countries is that they tend to lie, cheat, or steal to get their 'fix.' Corporations are addicted to profit and governments to power.

Politics is not really politics any more. It is run, for the most part, by Madison Avenue advertising firms, who sell politicians to the public the way they sell bars of soap or cans of beer.

The U.S. population, a mere four or five percent of the world total, creates half the world's toxic waste.

The power of an aroused public is unbeatable.

in terms of the biology of the planet, development is a euphemism for destruction.

Every time you turn on an electric light, you are making another brainless baby.

A writer travels through the heart again and again to express the beauty of its contents.

Even when we strive for perfection, life is nothing more than an attempt to achieve it through a series of greater or smaller imperfections.

Television series are like the stock market. There's room for bears and bulls but no room for pigs.

Do your duty that is best; leave unto the Lord the rest.

Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration?

The commercial music video industry is very hard to break into, and until you break in, that first job is the hardest thing in the world to get.

You can't have people listen to you unless you come to their world and then bring them to yours.

We are beautiful because God created us that way

I did not fail two thousand times. I merely found two thousand ways not to make a lightbulb.

Forgiveness - this needs to be our greatest skill. The way to get good at forgiveness is: to be thankful for all the little things you see in the other person.