Teachers, I believe, are the most responsible and important members of society because their professional efforts affect the fate of the earth.

You're going to have to change the priorities of your life, if you love this planet.

Patriotism is nationalism, and always leads to war.

It is clear to me that unless we connect directly with the earth, we will not have the faintest clue why we should save it.

The problem with addicted people, communities, corporations, or countries is that they tend to lie, cheat, or steal to get their 'fix.' Corporations are addicted to profit and governments to power.

Politics is not really politics any more. It is run, for the most part, by Madison Avenue advertising firms, who sell politicians to the public the way they sell bars of soap or cans of beer.

The U.S. population, a mere four or five percent of the world total, creates half the world's toxic waste.

The power of an aroused public is unbeatable.

Capitalism is destroying the earth.

in terms of the biology of the planet, development is a euphemism for destruction.

Every time you turn on an electric light, you are making another brainless baby.

To so many people, the Lord is in danger of being no more than a patron saint of our systematic theology instead of the Christ Who is our life.

If I made a mistake in singing a song or in the script, I could have some fun with it, then retain any of the fun that sounded amusing.

She came over and looked at the picture. Then she took my hand. You know what that feels like? Like what the astronauts will feel when they step onto the moon for the very first time.

No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.

There have been three times. Once I got in a car accident and shattered my finger. A few years ago I didn't feel like being alive. That's all I can say.

When you meet somebody who is vulnerable, there is an attraction. There is something to that. There is beauty there.

True success and true happiness not only go together but each other enhances the other.

Black love is Black wealth and they'll probably talk about my hard childhood and never understand that all the while I was quite happy

But science perhaps is very difficult without faith. Also there is no simple way of saying now we have science, we don't need faith anymore.

I still do find it very difficult in the West to connect to this politeness of smiling, not saying how you're thinking or not saying how you really feel.