One fifth of the people are against everything all the time.

The purpose of life is to contribute in some way to making things better.

Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.

Fear not the path of Truth for the lack of People walking on it.

The first sign of tyranny is government's complicity in privatizing the commons for private gain.

Religion is a salve for confusion and misdirection.

While communism is the control of business by government, fascism is the control of government by business.

The sharpest criticism often goes hand in hand with the deepest idealism and love of country.

The most patriotic thing you can do is to take care of the environment and try to live sustainably.

You're happiest while you're making the greatest contribution.

Corporate polluters, their phony think tanks and political toadies like to marginalize environmentalists as tree huggers, or radicals. But there is nothing radical about clean air or water.

You are the most important person in the world. Every single of you. Don’t let anybody tell you differently, okay?,

The stage is not for me to practice. I'm not that artist. You practice at home and when you get on stage, it's time for a conversation.

I want to go to Berkeley and major in music.

There are criminals who are drug users, but most addicts are criminals only by virtue of prohibition or from resorting to crime to pay inflated black market prices.

People don't like it when you make fun of a celebrity. When you make fun of a celebrity, you'll hear from really loyal fans of that celebrity.

The more you want something to happen, the harder it becomes.

Every place is safe to him who lives with justice.

Follow your dreams, quit your job

A clock struck out the hour of twelve, and the bird in the hedgerow was still singing as we marched out to the roadway, and followed our merry pipers home to town.

The final hour when we cease to exist does not itself bring death; it merely of itself completes the death-process. We reach death at that moment, but we have been a long time on the way.