Little boxes made of ticky-tacky, and they all look just the same.

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.

What is ‘common sense’? (It is that which is) Everywhere applicable, theoretically as well as practically!

The second whiskey is always my favorite. From the third on, it no longer has any taste. It's just something to pour into your stomach.

Leadership is helping yourself and other people achieve goals. The ability to direct your life to get the results you want is leadership.

And he whose soul is flat -- the sky Will cave in on him by and by.

To make a film you have to dream a film... that's true of poetry as well.

To be perfectly just is an attribute of the divine nature; to be so to the utmost of our abilities, is the glory of man.

If it's good art, it's good.

Having Respect for the world is when you allow people to be what they are.

You don't fight radical conservatism with not-quite-so radical conservatism.

I love metaphor the way some people love junk food.