The truth is a rabbit in a bramble patch. All you can do is circle around and say it's somewhere in there.

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.

Hate in your heart will consume you.

Idiosyncrasy and vicissitude had combined to stamp Sergeant Troy as an exceptional being.

When we as human beings, are trusted with life, but lack the value thereof, we are only left with one thing – abuse!

The rose is the flower and handmaiden of love - the lily, her fair associate, is the emblem of beauty and purity.

I'm a believer who loves Jesus and I work with everybody else whatever their denomination; Catholic, Orthodox, charismatic, main line, evangelicals, anyone who loves Jesus, I'll work with them.

Whoever controls the line of scrimmage and wins up front is going to be the winner.

I guess I'm just good at playing repressed individuals. I'm lucky because those are often the roles that catch people's eyes.

Abashed the devil stood and felt how awful goodness is and saw Virtue in her shape how lovely: and pined his loss

After university, I got a job sub-editing and for years I was a literary editor.

in much knowledge there is also much grief.