You cannot approach people who think differently with reason and logic if they don't know what that means. First, you have to appeal to their values to start with. If you attack them, you lose them.

If you think we can’t change the world, It just means you're not one of those that will

When education and resources are available to all without a price tag, there will be no limit to the human potential.

No one is born with greed, prejudice, bigotry, patriotism and hatred; these are all learned behavior patterns.

If you love someone and they want to leave, you help them pack. That's love

We are not taught to be thinkers, but reflectors of our culture. Let's teach our children to be thinkers.

We must stop constantly fighting for human rights and equal justice in an unjust system, and start building a society where equal rights are an integral part of the design.

You don't need to get rid of religion; you have to outgrow the need for it. In other words, instead of hoping for the good life, you make the good life.

We don't know how to live together on Earth, how the hell are we going to live together on Mars?

So your having trouble with your partner. Well ask yourself, if you were in a relationship with a replica of yourself how long would it last?

Opinions are very dangerous, because they aren't based on scientific studies.

I suppose there is a lot of toughness in me.

Joe gave me some more gravy.

Comfort comes into your house first as guest, then as a host, then finally as the master.

You have to become that infinite formless creation, which is life, to know it. It cannot be known in an intellectual sense. That is enlightenment.

[Adams] supposed that, except musicians, everyone thought Beethoven a bore, as every one except mathematicians thought mathematics a bore.

The greatest single virtue of a strong legislature is not what it can do, but what it can prevent.

There's no business that's too small for government to torture

Some days are like that. Even in Australia.

Watching Republicans in Washington is like watching lemmings, if lemmings jumped into cesspools instead of off cliffs. Splash! There goes Mark Foley!

Yes, in my books I do edit myself to keep from becoming the Village Explainer.