My mother playing the violin and my father and grandfather playing the piano, classical stuff.

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.

The more attention you give to your loved ones, the less affection you recieve from them.

If you don’t just want to live an ordinary life, then you will have to be intentional about converting all your time into that which you have been called to do.

Destiny is what is happening to you right now.

The Truth is the testimony about God.

Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you they're supposed to help you discover who you are.

Ideas come from everything

The issue is privacy. Why is the decision by a woman to sleep with a man she has just met in a bar a private one, and the decision to sleep with the same man for $100 subject to criminal penalties?

Well, when I get new information, I rethink my position. What, sir, do you do with new information?

And I must believe that man has the power to know the right, to choose between good and evil and know that his choice has made a difference.

But you people do not understand me, and I am afraid you never will.