The crucial fact to realize about all the powerful machinery of the Corporate State - its laws, structure, political system - is that it possesses no mind.

The great crime of our time, says Vonnegut, was to do too much good secretly, too much harm openly.

There is a revolution coming. It will not be like revolutions of the past. It will originate with the individual and with culture . . .

The corporate state is an immensely powerful machine, ordered, legalistic, rational, yet utterly out of human control, wholly and perfectly indifferent to any human values.

Technology has deprived the family of almost all its functions.

there is every reason to fear that the State is growing ever more powerful, more autonomous, more indifferent to its own inhabitants.

The American dream was not, at least at the beginning, a rags-to-riches type of narrow materialism.

One of the problems with fame is they try to pigeonhole you... like I'm stuck with The Greening of America for the rest of my life.

Perhaps the greatest and least visible form of impoverishment caused by the Corporate State is the destruction of community.

Surely this new age is not a repudiation of, but a fulfillment of, the American dream. What were the machines for, unless to give man a new freedom to choose how he would live?

My goal in life is to make people think. If I do that, I've been a success.

After or before any happiness, someone must cry.

I thought you only had eyes for your ship.” God, she was beautiful. “Until I met you.

Have a clear goal and plan. Waste no effort in your journey. Be strong, committed, and effective and you will experience a level of success few will ever know.

The heart has its reasons; it's the mind that's suspect.

He grinned, though his face was strained. “That’s it, love. Use me to make yerself feel good.

I'm not much of a drinker. I'm an eater more than a drinker. So I feel that I don't have to wait to get a hangover in order to eat these.

It's not what you wear it's how you wear it, is what I say.

Lord, make my life A window for Your light To shine through And a mirror to reflect Your love To all I meet. Amen.

When we laugh we temporarily give ourselves over to the person who makes us laugh.

Even a little gift may be vast with loving kindness.