This world is so full of hypocrisy, the only way you can be honest is to be a hermit.

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.

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.

David, you’re my true love, why did we wait so long to get together? I don’t care what the world says. Let’s defy them all, my darling.- Maddy

You were the only blessing I think, I didn't deserve at first place.

We imagine always when we speak that it is our own ears, our own mind, that are listening.

One learns to adapt to the land in which one lives.

If you wish success in life make perseverance your bosom friend.

The weight of your body is controlled by the image in your mind.

A mighty flame followeth a tiny spark.

Work is always an antidote to depression.

I spent 15 years on the road between touring and recording and I never saw anything. I want to enjoy life.

If you want to understand yourself, Then do not examine yourself. Just love yourself more sincerely, More soulfully And more self-givingly.