I believe that my choosing my present course I do no dishonor to them, or to those who may come after me.

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.

It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link of the chain of destiny can be handled at a time.

In the ring, I never really knew fear.

America, where thanks to Congress, there are forty million laws to enforce the Ten Commandments.

I think at the prospect of bringing children into the world, your mortality comes very much to the forefront, absolutely.

I've always got about four albums in my head.

In merest prudence men should teach . . . That science ranks as monstrous things Two pairs of upper limbs; so wings-- E'en Angel's wings!--are fictions.

The past has been a mint Of blood and sorrow. That must not be True of tomorrow.

The better you are at communicating, negotiating, and handling your fear of rejection, the easier life is.

It is not only vain, but wicked, in a legislator to frame laws in opposition to the laws of nature, and to arm them with the terrors of death. This is truly creating crimes in order to punish them.

Those who expect to reap the blessing of freedom must undertake to support it.