Parents are the hardest-working members of the population. But they do it for the highest wages. Kisses.

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.

When we pay attention to sensations in our bodies, we can feel that love is the energetic opposite of fear.

I have wit in my work and a sense of humor, but I do not use irony in any way.

Treat the other man's faith gently: it is all he has to believe with.

By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality.

A million dollars isn't what it used to be.

There is a fearful splendor in absolute desolation.

People say having kids is life changing, well that doesn't necessarily mean a good thing, does it? I could take one of my legs off. That would change my life.

Don't waste time on excuses. Just get it done.

It is painful to behold a man employing his talents to corrupt himself.

Fairness is man's ability to rise above his prejudices.