Don't own so much clutter that you will be relieved to see your house catch fire.

We need better government, no doubt about it. But we also need better minds, better friendships, better marriages, better communities.

Having hope is hard; harder when you get older.

We are far more concerned about the desecration of the flag than we are about the desecration of our land.

The line that connects the bombing of civilian populations to the mountain removed by strip mining ... to the tortured prisoner seems to run pretty straight. We're living, it seems, in the culmination of a long warfare - warfare against human beings, other creatures and the Earth itself.

No matter how much one may love the world as a whole, one can live fully in it only by living responsibly in some small part of it. Where we live and who we live there with define the terms of our relationship to the world and to humanity. We thus come again to the paradox that one can become whole only by the responsible acceptance of one's partiality.

There is no sense and no sanity in objecting to the desecration of the flag while tolerating and justifying and encouraging as a daily business the desecration of the country for which it stands.