What is dangerous about extremists is not that they are extreme but that they are intolerant. The evil is not what they say about their cause but what they say about their opponents.

The purpose of life is to contribute in some way to making things better.

Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.

Fear not the path of Truth for the lack of People walking on it.

The first sign of tyranny is government's complicity in privatizing the commons for private gain.

Religion is a salve for confusion and misdirection.

While communism is the control of business by government, fascism is the control of government by business.

The sharpest criticism often goes hand in hand with the deepest idealism and love of country.

The most patriotic thing you can do is to take care of the environment and try to live sustainably.

You're happiest while you're making the greatest contribution.

Corporate polluters, their phony think tanks and political toadies like to marginalize environmentalists as tree huggers, or radicals. But there is nothing radical about clean air or water.

Nobody is so miserable as he who longs to be somebody other than the person he is.

I think you have an obligation to be honest.

Whether someone believes something or not, believer or non-believer, as long as you are a member of the human family, you need warm human feeling, warmhearted feeling.

I wish people were all trees and I think I could enjoy them then.

Wherever there are beginners and experts, old and young, there is some kind of learning going on, some kind of teaching. We are all pupils and we are all teachers.

One truly affectionate soul in a family will evert a sweetening and harmonizing influence upon all its members.

A good director creates an environment which gives the actor the encouragement to fly.

One Direction have to do their own ironing you don't see Take That doing their own ironing!

I wonder what I can do about war. Is it the destiny of human kind to eventually wipe ourselves out with these weapons of mass destruction? Are we stupid to think that we can control them?

I don't wake up in the morning and say, wow I've got a great idea for a story. But I sit down, and I figure well, let's see.