I dreamed I saw a mighty room, the room was filled with men. And the paper they were signing said they'd never fight again.

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.

Enthusiasm is nothing more or less than faith in action.

More than 50% of significant new regulations that impact on business in the UK now emanate from the EU.

Success is the sum of small efforts - repeated day in and day out.

Make your judgment trustworthy by trusting it

Woe is me, for I am ruined! Because I am a man of unclean lips, And I live among a people of unclean lips; For my eyes have seen the King, the Lord of hosts.

It's much more interesting to try and understand what binds two people together. Why we stay with each other is much more of a mystery than why we don't.

I cry at films and TV and even adverts.

The anger of lovers renews the strength of love.

Today everything's a conflict of interest.

Put your hands on your hip, let your back bone slip. Do the Watusi, like my little Lucy.