We learned that a product doesn't sell just because you're trying to do good in the world. You still have to have a healthy distribution, a good marketing strategy, and price the product properly.

We decided to redefine the bottom line at Ben & Jerry's

When business starts using its voice for the benefit of the country as a whole, not just in its narrow self interest, it can really be the force that can make the changes that need to be made.

There is a spiritual aspect to our lives - when we give, we receive-when a business does something good for somebody, that somebody feels good about them!

Never trust a skinny ice cream man.

As we help others, we cannot help but help ourselves.

If you're aware of injustice, you can either ignore it, say there is nothing you can do about it, complain about it and not do anything, or put your energies into doing something about it.

It's crazy that in a country where schools are falling apart, we're spending $20 billion on nuclear weapons.

Business has a responsibility to give back to the community.

Having the equivalent of 150,000 Hiroshima-sized bombs at the ready does nothing to protect us from terrorists planning to sneak in a bomb through a cargo container.

If we reduced the amount we spend on maintaining our nuclear weapons by a small fraction, we could reallocate those funds to improve kids' health care and schooling.

Youth is the last ride with fun, but the first one with responsability.

Mum, ” she frowned “if one has freedom of worship to either be a Christian, Muslim, Jew, Buddhist or pagan: why can’t one have freedom to marry whoever or whatever one loves?

Great murderers, like great men in other walks of activity, have blue eyes.

[John] Adams never hid his jealousy and resentment of the other Founders, especially Benjamin Franklin.

Hope can be the most wonderful thing in the world or it can crush your heart like an eggshell.

...they tended towards the simple pleasures in life: drinking, whoring and fighting, preferably all three at once.

My goodness, you're 60 already, already Time is a thief But still, you're only as old as your tongue And a little bit older than your teeth Have a wonderful birthday

I often teach a graduate theater seminar on Greek tragedy in performance. I usually begin by saying that no matter what technological advances occur, the wisdom of these plays will never be obsolete.

Everything exists in limited quantity - especially happiness.

Words can bring you only up to their own limit; to go beyond, you must abandon them. Remain as the silent witness only.