Humans are basically good. That's why it takes so much training to march march march kill kill kill kill.

In a time of destruction, create something.

In a time of destruction, create something: a poem, a parade, a community, a school, a vow, a moral principle; one peaceful moment.

A story can take you through a whole process of searching, seeking, confronting, through conflicts, and then to a resolution. As the storyteller and the listener, we go through a story together.

The work of preservation demands that the feelings playing about in one's guts not be turned into action. Just watch their passing like cherry blossoms.

I learned to make my mind large, as the universe is large, so that there is room for paradoxes.

We're all under the same sky and walk the same earth; we're alive together during the same moment.

To me success means effectiveness in the world, that I am able to carry my ideas and values into the world--that I am able to change it in positive ways.

Do the right thing by whoever crosses your path. Those coincidental people are your people.

I may be ugly and clumsy, but one thing I'm not, I'm not retarded.

The images of peace are ephemeral. The language of peace is subtle. The reasons for peace, the definitions of peace, the very idea of peace have to be invented, and invented again

In other words, what we know for sure is entirely limited, and all the rest is basically opinion.

Don’t forget the snow in the summertime, because you will meet him again when the summer is over!

History cannot be reduced to a set of statistics and probabilities.

Are there are fireflies on the West Coast? I never saw any when I lived in California.

At a time when we are losing manufacturing jobs in this country, we should be doing everything we can to help our manufacturers stay competitive. They are the backbone of our economy.

The work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives, and the dream shall never die.

You shouldn't do science just to improve wealth - do science for the sake of human culture and knowledge. There must be some purpose in life that is higher than just surviving.

Sure it's a big job; but I don't know anyone who can do it better than I can.

I can never pass a cat in the street without greeting it and exchanging a few words, and the cat invariably replies.

I'm always looking at other artists and trying to get inspired by different things.