Our biggest national security threat is the environmental destruction of our planet and the arms race with ourselves.

You can spend the money on new housing for poor people and the homeless, or you can spend it on a football stadium or a golf course.

For every prohibition you create, you also create an underground.

Shut up, be happy. Obey all orders without question. The happiness you have demanded is now mandatory.

If evolution is outlawed, only outlaws will evolve.

Punk is not dead. Punk will only die when corporations can exploit and mass produce it.

I enjoy getting people angry and getting underneath their skin, especially people who don't think.

If voting could change anything, it would be illegal.

Heavy Metal is the most conservative of all loud music. Let's face it, not even a gym teacher could get as many people to dress alike.

If you liked school, you're gonnnnna lovvvvve work!

My parents didn't hide reality. I watched cartoons and the news with equal fascination.

Your intelligence is defined by your intuitive question not by your definitive answers.

And the world suddenly appeared to me as such an awfully large place, with I so totally alone in it that I could have cried from the bottom of my heart.

As a farmer, you learn quick: You don't get anything that you don't work hard for.

The search for truth is more precious than its possession.

Now I've got that [life is a journey not a destination] tattooed on my arm because it just reminds me of that time, and I think it's just an amazing quote.

This is an issue that has an exceedingly high number of threads in it. It involves race, it involves culture, it involves crime, it involves justice.

Like most kids growing up, I had a very wide interest. I was interested in everything. I tried to take advantage of everything, from the sciences to music to writing to literature.

If you want a particular behavior from someone else, try spotlighting those times when he or she is already doing it.

The way I approached a question, my habit of mind, the way I looked at things, what I took for granted - all this was myself and it did not seem to me that I could alter it.

Dare to tell the smallest of stories if you want to generate large emotions.