I believe that it's vital for children and teens to be educated, to be given information to help them understand the impacts humans are having on our water, soil, and air.

It's incredibly disturbing to me that humans are disrupting pretty much every single living system on the planet.

Without information, there can be no real understanding of the ramifications of our choices.

Education, the free flow of information, is key for our personal and societal growth. It all comes back to education.

Money and stuff aren't what makes us happy. It's strong connections within families and friends, communities of people that truly care about one another.

We have spent the better part of the last fifty years being inundated by advertising, being told that we will be happier if we get more stuff. But that's been backfiring recently.

The imbalances in the climate have been brought on by the incessant push for more and more immediate wealth.

As much as it's awful to learn about all the greedy and selfish decisions that some people make, I know there are many more people who have good intentions.

Being mad is activating. Being sad can lead to hopelessness. I'm not hopeless. I'm very hopeful.

Years ago, after I'd answered several questions from a group of teens, one of them asked how I could stay optimistic and keep on going. I answered that instead of getting sad, I get mad.

I would lay down everything I possess, even my soul, for you. If that isn't love, it's the best I have.

She got the magazine on a Wednesday morning, and on Thursday announced our marriage was over.

Rogue Squadron doesn't run. Unless we really, really have to.

I think every leading man wants to be a character actor, and every character actor wants to be a leading man.

Apollo 13, as you may remember, gave us a reactor that is bubbling away right now somewhere in the Pacific. It's supposed to be bubbling away on the moon, but it's in the Pacific Ocean instead.

I enjoy it when the world smiles; the more smiles, the warmer I am.

I could quite happily just make music because it conjures up a whole visual world for me in my mind.

I like to read my diary occasionally to remind myself what a miserable, alienated old sod I used to be.

When you're 20, you think the whole world is talented, but whenyou get older, you realize the opposite is true.

The University of Timbuktu never existed. The only thing that existed in Timbuktu was a small mud hut.