Howard Zinn was magical as a teacher. Witty, irreverent, and wise, he loved what he was teaching and clearly wanted his students to love it, also.

Creation is a sustained period of bliss, even though the subject can still be very sad. Because there's the triumph of coming through and understanding that you have, and that you did it the way only you could do it. You didn't do it the way somebody told you to do it. You did it just the way you had to do it, and that is what makes us us.

Not everyone's life is what they make it. Some people's life is what other people make it.

In our particular society, it is the narrowed and narrowing view of life that often wins.

My ancestors make up the skin of the world. That's who that is. That's what that is. That's us.

Whenever you are creating beauty around you, you are restoring your own soul.

I see children, all children, as humanity's most precious resource, because it will be to them that the care of the planet will always be left.