Instead of being presented with stereotypes by age, sex, color, class, or religion, children must have the opportunity to learn that within each range, some people are loathsome and some are delightful.

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

Warfare ... is just an invention, older and more widespread than the jury system, but none the less an invention.

The need to find meaning...is as real as the need for trust and for love, for relations with other human beings.

Through a grandmother's voice and hands the end of life is known at the beginning.

The prophet who fails to present a bearable alternative and yet preaches doom is part of the trap that he postulates.

EARTH DAY uses one of humanity's great discoveries, the discovery of anniversaries by which, throughout time, human beings have kept their sorrows and their joys, their victories, their revelations and their obligations alive, for re-celebration and re-dedication another year, another decade, another century, another eon.