In a world of private property, if something isn't owned by somebody, it's going to be misused by somebody else.

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.

Last night, in silent hours - where the gentle sea touched our skin - I have found the love of your thinking.

Wisdom is merely the movement from fighting life to embracing it.

Patience is the greatest of all virtues.

My best game plan is to sit on the bench and call out specific instructions like 'C'mon Boog,' 'Get a hold of one, Frank,' or 'Let's go, Brooks.'

They'll put a man on the moon before I hit a home run.

All the words are not enough to get anything said.

Now, I - for several years while I was researching this book, I felt quite obsessed by thoughts about sentencing, punishment, how judges arrive at their decisions.

Houses, like people, have personalities, and, like the personalities of people, they are partly molded by all that has happened to them.

As a disabled man, let my life be a reflection of the endless amount of ability that exists in each and everyone of us.

I think I could turn and live with animals, they are so placid and self-contain'd, I stand and look at them long and long.