I believe that the only true agents of change on a large scale, in this country or anywhere, are young people.

I'll never be able to fill my father's or grandfather's shoes, but hopefully I can stand on their shoulders and reach farther.

Young people have, truly, the potential to change the world. Not when they get older - today.

I've seen a lot of doom and gloom and depressing things, and it's [the] youth that give me hope.

One of my big pet peeves is single-use plastic bags. I think it's one of the stupidest ideas in the world.

My father's plan was, we were going to grow up and travel the world.

I travel all over the country speaking to young people, and I am always amazed at how engaged in environmental conservation they are.

Fossil fuels and mining is a short-term gambit. If we develop those resources at the expense of the environmental gold mine that is the Great Barrier Reef, we will all lose in the long run.

The psychological components of war have not gone away—dominance, vengeance, callousness, tribalism, groupthink, self-deception

I know perfectly well he's a god, too. But what I think is he'll be much godlier after he's dead.

The most influential of all educational factors is the conversation in a child's home.

The heart that is constantly overflowing with gratitude will be safe from those attacks of resentfulness and gloom that bother so many persons.

Singing is a way of escaping. It's another world. I'm no longer on earth.

That which does not destroy, strengthens.

Be patient and calm; no one can catch fish in anger.

For an actor working in television or film, I think it's important to understand how the medium works - how the camera and lenses work and how the sound and the editing works.

A number of religions in Ankh-Morpork still practiced human sacrifice, except that they didn't really need to practice any more because they had got so good at it.

Society is no comfort, to one not sociable.