The first country conquered by any dictator is his own country.

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.

Love caught me with my pants down, watering skeleton flowers and humming the blues.

Love is like electricity, you can’t see it, but it can enlighten you or it can burn you.

The thing is most people are afraid to step out, to take a chance beyond their established identity.

Terrible errors are rarely made all at once. Usually they are performed one small misstep at a time.

A book tour is, first and foremost, an exercise in humility.

I like the nice guys. I like when they show the stories, the human element behind it all.

I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.

Depending on the inflection, ah bon can express shock, disbelief, indifference, irritation, or joy - a remarkable achievment for two short words.

Maybe that sounds a bit pretentious, but I think life experience is always more important than technical knowledge.

If you have questions about how people earn their wealth, for crying out loud, the Clintons have a way of doing it that virtually nobody else could parlay.