A lot of people have dreams and never do anything about them. When you have ideas and dreams, you do something about it.

I really just can't watch myself. I see all the machinery at work and it just drives me nuts.

Newman's second law: Just when things look darkest, they go black.

The only way we can give our children the best education in the world and prepare them for the next century is by funding the programs that serve them.

When the idea came up, (Newman's Own) I said, "Are you crazy? Stick my face on the label of salad dressing?" And then, of course, we got the whole idea of exploitation and how circular it is. Why not, really, go to the fullest length, and the silliest length, in exploiting yourself and turn the proceeds back to the community?

The concept that a person who has a lot holds his hand out to someone who has less, or someone who isn't hurting holds his hand out to someone who is, is simply a human trait that has nothing to do with celebrity. I am confounded at the stinginess of some institutions and some people. I'm bewildered by it. You can only put away so much stuff in your closet.

While progress should never come to a halt, there are many places it should never come to at all.