I think the world is going to be saved by millions of small things.

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.

There's no alternative to being yourself. Accept it, honour it, value it - and get on with it.

Trifles make perfection and perfection is no trifle.

I am my own person. What I'm doing, I'm happy with it. I'm doing what I want to.

I once believed that I possessed creative talent, but I have given up this idea; a woman must not desire to compose — there has never yet been one able to do it. Should I expect to be the one?

We can find reasons to dislike anyone. But it's what you focus on and appreciate in a person that cultivates a positive relationship.

The outward is only the outside of that which is within. Men are not concealed under habits, but are revealed by them; they are their true clothes.

You can control your choices but you can't control the outcome of those choices.

It would be absolutely useless for any of us to work to save wildlife without working to educate the next generation of conservationists.

Recalling what our lives were like before Jesus Christ entered them will help keep our daily problems in perspective.

I consider the integrity of the material to be of greater value than any message I might want to get across.