You knew that what is given or granted can be taken away, that what is begged can be refused; but that what is earned is kept.

There are those that look at things the way they are, and ask why? I dream of things that never were, and ask why not?

Every time you stand up for an ideal, you send forth a tiny ripple of hope.

I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil. Government belongs wherever evil needs an adversary and there are people in distress.

There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never were, and ask why not?

While free markets tend to democratize a society, unfettered capitalism leads invariably to corporate control of government.

Each time a man stands up for an ideal or acts to improve the lot of others or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope.

Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator. And change has its enemies.

Too often we honor swagger and bluster and the wielders of force; too often we excuse those who are willing to build their own lives on the shattered dreams of others.

It is the essence of responsibility to put the public good ahead of personal gain

In your hands lies the future of your world and the fulfilment of the best qualities of your own spirit.

Next to a battle lost, the greatest misery is a battle gained.

The idea of finding value in what people are willing to pay to get rid of it one of the fundamental backbones of ecocapitalism, as I think of it now.

Cemeteries are full of unfulfilled dreams... countless echoes of 'could have' and 'should have'… Don’t choose to walk the well-worn path to regret.

I have a darker imagination than most people.

The movie business is very much like that: people in authority making purely emotional decisions instead of interesting rational ones.

Every people should persue happiness in their own way.

We invented words; we'll tell you how they're supposed to sound.

First they use technology to poison the planet, then they develop it further to escape from the planet they have poisoned.

Make it plain that you have no time for war, that you have more important things to do....let the diplomats and marshals of the earth shoot each other.