I used to agree with Kurt Vonnegut, who said that the human race has a snowball's chance in hell of being around a hundred years from now.

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.

It’s okay to DREAM and dream BIG.

Neither imagine that you are false, nor lash yourself, for both may be forms of self-indulgence.

It is never a question of how much you and I have of the Spirit, but how much He has of us.

I felt sure that [Oyarsa] was what we call "good, " but I wasn't sure whether I liked "goodness" so much as I had supposed.

What goes on in abstract art is the proclaiming of aesthetic principles... It is in our own time that we have become aware of pure aesthetic considerations. Art never can be imitation.

Literature sucks you into another psyche. So the creation of empathy necessarily influences how you'll behave to other people.

If you want to see a shooting star, you might have to spend a lot of nights looking up.

Those who give too much attention to trifling things become generally incapable of great ones.

Poland should be strong and prosperous and independent and play its proper role as a great nation in the heart of Europe.

I can never remember what I do even in the studio.