It was only through the years that I realized what an absolutely extraordinarily thoughtful person Dr. King was.

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.

For somebody famous, it's weird anyway to meet someone, because they have a preconceived notion of who you are.

So what about me? Would I always have to find a high horse? The moral relish, the rising above, the being in the right, which can make me flaunt my losses.

I basically don't do that well with children, although my sister says I'm a great aunt.

Silence is so powerful, so important. There is so much to be learned from it.

I will be free, no lover's kiss to bind me to earth, no bliss of love to counteract actual bliss.

What would Pop-eye do in a tight spot like this?

Be yourself, let you come through.

And it has become a kind of a truism in the study of creativity that you can't be creating anything with less than 10 years of technical knowledge immersion in a particular field.

If more women want to be a part of the computer industry today, they have to do more to put themselves there. Nobody is keeping them out.

I like writing melody without an instrument. It's just so - it's more like the choreography of a bee; you just go.