The key to the future of the world is finding the optimistic stories and letting them be known.

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.

An ounce of wisdom is worth more than a pound of knowledge.

Was still between Martha and Jane, then, I was. Between the girl I was and who I wanted to be.

Love makes the world go round, but sometimes you spin so much you end up dizzy.

I am supposed to take the bullets and absorb them. Like a bear, a polar bear.

I sing all the time but I'd never gotten what it felt like to be in the recording studio, so it was definitely a learning process.

The mystery of God touches us - or does not - in the smallest details: giving a strawberry, with love; receiving a touch, with love; sharing the snapdragon red of an autumn sunset, with love.

The face that cannot smile is never fair.

I'm the greatest, I'm a bad man, and I'm pretty!

Fools who won't see the truth are deadly.

My sisters, let's tell 'fashion' we love Allah more!