Our security doesn't come from turning away from the hard stuff; it comes from the knowledge that we can handle it.

Civil disobedience is an act of love.

What one person can do is to plant the seeds of love and outrage in the hearts of a movement. And if those hearts are fertile ground, those seeds of love and outrage will grow into a revolution.

Until our leaders take seriously their responsibility to pass on a healthy and just world to the next generation, I will continue this fight.

Respond to stressful times by turning towards each other, rather than away from each other.

We need actions that are really coming from people's souls.

The reality is not that I lack respect for the law; it's that I have greater respect for justice.

It's really hard to change the world when your first priority is making sure that the little world around yourself doesn't change.

Alienation is perhaps the most effective tool of control in America, and every reminder of our real connectedness weakens that tool.

I don't think a worship of nature is necessary to mount a really strong defense of the environment.

We think we have no power when in fact we have more than enough power.

Prayer is not our using of God

First of all, it was in my contract. I knew I would be directing an episode.

The best dress for walking is nakedness.

God may have created the world in six days, but while he was resting on the seventh, Beelzebub popped up and did this place.

Chocolate's okay, but I prefer a really intense fruit taste. You know when a peach is absolutely perfect... it's sublime. I'd like to capture that and then use it in a dessert.

I want a lot to eat, I'm going to think today.

Working at Pixar has been like my graduate school for screenwriting.

When we let go of believing we are superior, we open ourselves to the experience of living in the community of Nature.

In my community, women are as important as males, and they are playing an equal role in the society.

[I]t is impossible that any people of government should ever prosper, where men render not unto God, that which is God's, as well as to Caesar, that which is Caesar's.