I feel that my whole life is a contribution.

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.

You can’t hang out with negative people and live a positive life. Run from them!

I believe that in Europe, we have a collective leadership.

People think you are an orphan when you are a child, and don't believe that old people can feel that they are orphans.

The hand that destroys the Constitution rends our Union asunder forever.

...we're all in a soup of trying to live by words, and trying to live by poetry. It's both humbling, and really flattering to know that my words are part of all that.

It is my theory you can't get rid of fat. All you can do is move it around, like furniture.

A businessman who reads Business Week is lost to fame. One who reads Proust is marked for greatness.

I think it would be great for the Academy to recognize old age.

Every technological product has to be designed and its fabrication overseen, and this is what engineers DO.

I think we need to prepare for the worst, and so I support energy efficiency measures.