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.

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.

Technology will save us if it doesn't wipe us out first.

The worst bullies you will ever encounter in your life are your own thoughts.

When you wake each day, it is your choice if you are going to use your attitude to your advantage or allow it to work against you.

There is nothing as boring as the truth.

Theres something in music that fascinates me - how it communicates emotion so immediately. Thats something I wanted in my paintings.

You know the type: loud as a motorbike but wouldn't bust a grape in a fruit fight.

We call for the three great stimulants of the exhausted ones, artifice, brutality, and innocence.

Meditation on Jesus Christ crucified is a precious balm which sweetens all pains.

The Earth is a tiny blue speck in a universe of unfriendly options.

(In schools) There is an emphasis on doing things right rather on doing the right things.

You are a beautiful mess, you are the melody.