I'm worried about greenwashing. I think we should come down on it very, very hard, whether it's with criminal intent or actively deceptive.

So, you could call me optimistic and hopeful and probably just a little bit naïve, but I'm coming from the space that the best way to predict the future is to get out there and just do it yourself.

I became a vegetarian 55 years ago, and I think it's one of the more important behavioral changes I ever took. The more I see of the beef industry and so on, I believe that to be true.

I think that consumerism is intrinsically a pretty flawed social system.

Behavioral change is more important than individual product choices. They both have a role to play.

Any prudent business looks at the reality and how to maximize our investment.

I'm part of the consumer culture. I was part of the baby boom generation. I have a car when I shouldn't, a couple of computers; I can't be anti-consumerist in that sense.

All the problems and challenges make life interesting. It makes the living worthwhile. If everything follows a straight order, we lose our interest out of life.

If art is the bridge between what you see in your mind and what the world sees, then skill is how you build that bridge.

If you have no anger inside your heart, you will have no enemy outside in the world.

Well, well,” he said. “Five days a week isn’t enough of me? Had to give me an evening, too?

Time curses all, I thought, except the truth.

Pell Grants are, and have been, critically important tools in making higher education a possibility for lower- and middle-income students.

most people are perfectly afraid of silence

The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.

Have you not observed that faith is generally strongest in those whose character may be called the weakest?

So we have to be ready, willing, and able to really transform ourselves, and each other in the world, not just say it and affirm it, "Oh, I want to change". Intention is important, but so is action.