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.

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.

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.

Technology will save us if it doesn't wipe us out first.

Some trips are more than distance traveled in miles.

We must remember that we cannot change others, we can only change ourselves.

I believe that everyone in the world is crazy except you and me. And even you're a little bit strange.

When you keep it within the walls, it dies. When you take it out where Jesus intended it to be, it happens.

Embrace uncertainty. Some of the most beautiful chapters in our lives won't have a title until much later.

All conflict we experience in the world, is a conflict within our own selves.

Once I caught my dad in front of the TV watching a tennis match, and I realized they were tricking us. Poor guy, he had to sneak in a tennis final - probably the French Open.

Sure, Messi and Ronaldo have scored more goals than me. But I won the treble!

What justifies a character singing one idea for 3 minutes on the screen? I get impatient and want the story to carry on. I don't get impatient in the theatre.

Ransack the language as he might, words failed him. He wanted another landscape, and another tongue.