It's incredible to see labor unions and environmentalists getting together to stop the corporate mentality that destroys both jobs and the environment.

Ugly ducklings don't turn into swans and glide off down the lake. Whether your sunglasses are on or off, you only see the world you make.

The consolidation of the music business has made it difficult to encourage styles like the blues, all of which deserve to be celebrated as part of our most treasured national resources.

Religion is for people who are scared to go to hell. Spirituality is for people who have already been there.

I never saw music in terms of men and women or black and white. There was just cool and uncool.

There were so many great music and political scenes going on in the late '60s in Cambridge. The ratio of guys to girls at Harvard was four to one, so all of those things were playing in my mind.

Life gets mighty precious when there's less of it to waste.

Solar power is the last energy resource that isn't owned yet - nobody taxes the sun yet.

We can live in fear or act out of hope.

It's always enjoyable to listen to a friend's work, but if it doesn't resonate with you, then you can just appreciate it and it inspires you in its own way.

We can choose, you know, we ain't no amoeba.

Dante subsumed everything, and so, in a sense, secularized nothing.

One trained dog equals 60 search-and-rescue workers.

Forgiveness is the way to true health and happiness.

This is a small town, so everyone talks. Ironic, isn't it—so few people, so many opinions?

Do not be reactive and vengeful and if you look deeply into your anguish, you will see that it is the anguish of our wounded collective soul.

I have one yardstick by which I test every major problem - and that yardstick is: Is it good for America?

There was mental and physical abuse in my family.

I am an obsessive flyer, myself.

Moral cowardice and intellectual corruption are the natural concomitants of unchallenged privilege.

Above all avoid taking the advice of men who have no brains and do not know what they are talking about.