A good song reminds us what we're fighting for.

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.

Sometimes only a change of viewpoint is needed to convert a tiresome duty into an interesting opportunity.

I love every period in design history. Even the ugly ones.

I went in and said, "If I see one more gratuitous shot of a woman's body, I'm quitting . . . " I think the show should be emotional story lines, morals, real- life heroes. And that's what we're doing

I'll tell you how to beat the gambling in Las Vegas. When you get off the airplane, walk right into the propeller.

Work like there is someone working twenty-four hours a day to take it all away from you.

Secrecy is a vacuum and nothing fills a vacuum like paranoid speculation.

I'm a huge Beatles fan, but I've only really gotten into them as an adult.

A belligerent state permits itself every such misdeed, every such act of violence, as would disgrace the individual.

Your dreams will betray you. Go nowhere on a horse that fades.

What thing, in honor, had my father lost, That need to be revived and breathed in me?