When I found out the heads of the Church were up to things that were not good. I left. I say, you know I don't want to be a part of that at all.
I've seen a lot of doom and gloom and depressing things, and it's [the] youth that give me hope.
I could cut my leg off. I could cut my arm off. I could gouge an eye out. I'd still probably survive. But not very well. And that's what we're doing to the oceans. It's the life-support system of this planet. We've been dumping in it. We've been polluting it. We've been destroying it for decades. And we're essentially maiming ourselves.
I'll never be able to fill my father's or grandfather's shoes, but hopefully I can stand on their shoulders and reach farther.
The great news is that overwhelmingly far more than adults, youth already care about the environment. Young people are recognizing that we have largely made a mess of things with respect to the environment [and] that the burden to fix it will fall on them.
I believe that the only true agents of change on a large scale, in this country or anywhere, are young people.
Young people have, truly, the potential to change the world. Not when they get older - today.
The English language is so elastic that you can find another word to say the same thing.
As the child approaches a new text he is entitled to an introduction so that when he reads, the gist of the. . . story can provide some guide for a fluent reading.
The story of practically every great fortune starts with the day when a creator of ideas and a seller of ideas got together and worked in harmony.
The great quest of life has always been to discover truth.