Change represents the real spirit of democracy and the real America.

A polite enemy is just as difficult to discredit, as a rude friend is to protect.

People use words to do battle and to hurt one another terribly, tragically and even mortally.

When we want to talk, we can instead listen, and let our attentiveness to another's need to speak be our silent statement.

Respectful communication under conflict or opposition is an essential and truly awe-inspiring ability.

We must quit thinking we know everything, and quit placing "knowledge" over kindness and compassion.

The dreamer's untamed eye sees beyond the illusions to the heart of what is real.

There is no greater intelligence than kindness and empathy.

Love only serves and does not calculate.

If you do not like a certain behavior in others, look within yourself to find the roots of what discomforts you.

Materialism is an identity crisis.

There is nothinggoing on. I took nothingyou wanted. You can'thave it back.

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

Hip Hop can be a very effective way to reach young people and teach them about current political and social issues.

Photography allows you to be a part of the action and document stories. It is a perfect extension of my body. I can take it pretty much anywhere and tell a story with a photograph.

Without wilderness, the world's a cage.

Love of my life, I love you so. Love of my life, don't ever go.

A Baby Sermon- The lighting and thunder, they go and they come: But the stars and the stillness are always at home

I cannot function if there is a physical mess around me. If everything is falling apart, I go on a cleaning frenzy.

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy. Music is the electrical soil in which the spirit lives, thinks and invents.

The most practical, the most dignified way of going on in the world is to take people at their word, when you have no positive reason to the contrary.