I fought for peace in the fifties.

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's a shame that we humans are never able to pull in the same direction . . . [n]ot even when confronted by infinity.

My favourite thing is to be somebody else, no longer be me.

Vanity is so secure in the heart of man that everyone wants to be admired: even I who write this, and you who read this.

We know that much of the training and the direction for terrorists comes from Pakistan and the border area with Afghanistan

... a canvas that I have covered is worth more than a blank canvas. My pretensions go no further; that is my right to paint, my reason for painting.

Life is a matter of choices, and every choice you make makes you.

Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.

Mathematics is a field which has often been compared with chess, but differs from the latter in that it is only one's best moments that count and not one's worst.

Now, nothing can be brought from potentiality to actual existence except through something actually existing

Exaggerated portrayals apparently destroy desire more effectively than any repression.