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“I tell children from all over the country that it's good to eat healthy and nothing to be ashamed about. They know me from the Subway commercials and can relate to what I'm saying.”
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“Where once such devices were relegated to appropriate times, now they've become necessities. The other day I watched a kid come off the school bus listening to music on his headphones, oblivious to the traffic zooming past him. And I can't even begin to count the times I've thought pet owners were talking to their dogs while taking them for a walk when, in reality, they were blabbing on their cell phones. It's a different level of use than we've seen in the past, ... It's becoming more of a full-day listening experience as opposed to just when you're jogging.”
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“I don't have many friends; I'm very much a loner. As a child I was very isolated, and I've never been really close to anyone.”
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“I don't think there are many larger lessons to be found in sports.”
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“In issues of recent ethnic wars and genocides - particularly if you look at Darfur - one of the most remarkable things is our inability to act, still, despite the years of analyzing and re-analyzing what it does to subsequent generations. We still find a massive inability to step in and step up to the plate, when genocide is happening as we speak.”
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“Music is the harmonious voice of creation; an echo of the invisible world.”
Source : Giuseppe Mazzini, Emilie Ashurst Venturi (2004). “Giuseppe Mazzini's Philosophy of Music: (1836) : Envisioning a Social Opera”, Edwin Mellen Pr
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“Our nuclear free status is a statement of our belief that we and our fellow human beings can build the institutions which will one day allow us all to renounce the weapons of mass destruction. We are a small country and what we can do is limited. But in this as in every other great issue, we have to start somewhere.”
Source : David Lange's Right Livelihood Award Acceptance Speech, www.rightlivelihoodaward.org. December 31, 2003. 
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“Everything in the world starts small and then becomes bigger—except bad things. They start big, and then get smaller.”
Source : Warren St. John (2009). “Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference”, p.292, Spiegel & Grau
