You have a right to your opinion and I've got a right to mine. Period.

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.

If you think you’re worthless, you’re not - but your limiting self-beliefs are. Change them.

It was just a colour out of space—a frightful messenger from unformed realms of infinity beyond all Nature as we know it

Every Single Number on the Clock knows all my Secrets.

To every person who has never experienced genuine love and kindness, may you still have the strength to find the love and light that exists within your soul to give, thrive, and shine.

I urge a willingness to reserve a place in rational science for non-rational wonder.

I'm hugely proud of being Irish. And I don't even know what that means. I just know that it's true.

When it came to football there was a certain age where I realized that my future in football was being a grease spot on the side of some bigger player.

You can't throw a rock without a comic book character falling out of a tree.

An "I know what I like" mentality is hard to shake, but of course appreciation has space for being challenged.

The very essence of school is elitism. Schools exist to teach, to test, to rank hierarchically to promote the idea that knowing and understanding more is better than knowing and understanding less.