"These small indignities and minor cruelties take a toll. They add to the burden of stress and fatigue that is already present in the workplace and they have real consequences on the every day lives of workers."

“If you don’t know how to fix it, please, stop breaking it.”

Source : Speech at U.N. Conference on Environment and Development, delivered day Month 1992, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

“When you begin to see that your enemy is suffering, that is the beginning of insight.”

“Leaving New Orleans also frightened me considerably. Outside of the city limits the heart of darkness, the true wasteland begins.”

“Even very young children need to be informed about dying. Explain the concept of death very carefully to your child. This will make threatening him with it much more effective.”

“The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco.”

“Physical pain is problematic because it's very difficult to transcend that. Sometimes you're just in physical pain, and that's a bummer. Even then, there are beautiful things involved in the healing of that. I've experienced some.”

Source : "Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

“There are so many of us that just do things to pay bills, but I never wanted that to be me.”

“Personally I'm obsessive-compulsive about the placement and cleanliness of my things.”