My notes have a curious tendency, as I realize at last, to annihilate all they purport to record.
Ronald Reagan is the most ignorant president since Warren Harding.
The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.
Water is the most precious, limited natural resource we have in this country. . . But because water belongs to no one - except the people - special interests, including government polluters, use it as their private sewers.
The only difference between the Republican and Democratic parties is the velocities with which their knees hit the floor when corporations knock on their door. That's the only difference.
Addiction should never be treated as a crime. It has to be treated as a health problem. We do not send alcoholics to jail in this country. Over 500,000 people are in our jails who are nonviolent drug users.
The clinical definition of "fascism" is when private concentrated economic power takes government away from the people, turns government into a guarantor, a subsidizer, a covering of corporate power.
I'm not a completely closed book; I'm a social person and if I see something worth sharing, I'm happy to do that.
The worst derangement of the spirit is to believe things because we want them to be so, not because we have seen them for what they are.
One of the problems with fame … is they try to pigeonhole you… like I'm stuck with The Greening of America for the rest of my life.
Love is the felt experience of connection to another being. An economist says 'more for you is less for me. ' But the lover knows that more of you is more for me too. If you love somebody their happiness is your happiness. Their pain is your pain. Your sense of self expands to include other beings. This shift of consciousness is universal in everybody, 99% and 1%.