Never ever depend on governments or institutions to solve any major problems. All social change comes from the passion of individuals.

Earth Day is the first holy day which transcends all national borders, yet preserves all geographical integrities, spans mountains and oceans and time belts, and yet brings people all over the world into one resonating accord, is devoted to the preservation of the harmony in nature and yet draws upon the triumphs of technology, the measurement of time, and instantaneous communication through space.

To the extent a person makes, invents or thinks something that is new to him, he may be said to have performed a creative act.

If they learn easily, they are penalized for being bored when they have nothing to do; if they excel in some outstanding way, they are penalized as being conspicuously better than the peer group. The culture tries to make the child with a gift into a one-sided person, to penalize him at every turn, to cause him trouble in making friends and to create conditions conducive to the development of a neurosis. Neither teachers, the parents of other children, nor the child peers will tolerate a Wunderkind.

today's children are the first generation to grow up in a world that has the power to destroy itself.

Creationism: the theory that Rome was built in a day.

There is no greater insight into the future than recognizing...when we save our children, we save ourselves