Children, be worried when they call you America's most valuable natural resource. Have you seen what they've done to the other natural resources?

The Earth is not dying-it is being killed. And the people who are killing it have names and addresses.

The degree to which you resist is the degree to which you are free.

The most un-American thing you can do is to stifle dissent

Every good educator knows that true teaching is to teach kids how to ask the right questions.

As I have said so often before, the long memory is the most radical idea in America...

Sing your song Dance your dance Tell your story I will Listen and remember

I'm here to change the world, and if I am not, I am probably wasting my time.

Chris Chandler is the best performance poet I have ever seen.

Laurie Lewis' songs combine passion and sheer craft in a way you don't hear very often. Whatever country music is supposed to be, she's at the center of it.

The people I've known who wanted to become writers, knowing what it meant, did become writers.

I cast my eyes out to the seaAnd gaze at all eternity.until forever turns to night.My eyes then lift to catch starlight.

Each day, in itself, brings with it an eternity.

Literature is not an instruction manual.

Wealth is only a benefit of the game of money. If you win, the money will be there.

When you're waiting for a bus, the thing to do is smoke a cigarette.

Everybody on a championship team doesn't get publicity, but everyone can say he's a champion.

Quality effective leaders have the confidence to trust others to try, succeed, and sometimes to fail.

The only reason I don't do more is because, like all of us, we have busy lives.

It [the Earth] was breathtakingly beautiful, like something out of a fairy tale. There is no way to describe the joy of seeing the Earth. It is blue, and more beautiful than any other planet.