Every time I'm in the woods, i feel like I'm in church.

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.

Much that may seem evil can be good.

Ask yourself the three things you must always ask yourself before you say anything. 1) Does this need to be said 2) “Does this need to be said by me? 3) Does this need to be said by me now?

The economy in Gaza is declining because Gaza is controlled by a terror regime.

Beauty is no local deity, like the Greek and Roman gods, but omnipresent.

This is good, life must continue, we are fighting barbarians, but we must remain human.

A lack of realism in the vision today costs credibility tomorrow.

I can't help feeling that there is no beauty without hope, struggle, and conquest.

I live in constant fear of being fired or dropped for that dark part of my work I can't control.

There is no such thing as exaggerated art. I even believe that there is salvation only in extreme.

Everyone is in love with the impossible; the impossible gives you neverending dreams and neverending hopes.