Dreams are more powerful than facts.

We could learn a lot from crayons; some are sharp, some are pretty, some are dull, while others bright, some have weird names, but they all have learned to live together in the same box.

Don't worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.

If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then you got a problem. Everything else is inconvenience.

It will be a great day when our schools have all the money they need, and our air force has to have a bake-sale to buy a bomber.

The examined life is no picnic.

The winding down of summer puts me in a heavy philosophical mood.

Ignorance and power and pride are a deadly mixture, you know.

All I ever needed to know I learned in kindergarten. Share everything ... Don't hit people ... Clean up your own mess.

Why is love easy? I don’t know. And the raccoons don’t say.

Love is a fabric which never fades, no matter how often it is washed in the water of adversity and grief.

Strength of character comes from being hit by stray verbal stones, while protecting discarded ciphers in the snow.

If tears of sorrow are the echoes of things lost, what then are tears of joy?

In the long years liker they must grow; The man be more of woman, she of man.

Fighting injustice keeps you young.

Miracles happen all the time. We're here, aren't we?

I like to speak on matters which matter to human beings, and almost everything matters to human beings.

Don't ever speak publicly about anything that you're not passionate about and that you don't actually believe you have something truly unique about it to deliver.

What's worse: to be idle while someone dies, or to be exiled and empty-handed?

It can be frightening to spend 5 weeks alone in a cabin in the wilderness. I was able to collect my thoughts and worked a lot - because I couldn't do anything else.

There's too many people in the world.