I saw in the Nineties that we were increasing police power with get tough policies and 3 strikes laws, but without additional oversights.

It's in that convergence of spiritual people becoming active and active people becoming spiritual that the hope of humanity now rests.

If the road to social transformation can be paved only by saints who never make mistakes, the road will NEVER be built.

In a democracy, you won't always get to have your way. But you should always get to have your say.

If we stand for change, we can spark a popular movement with power, influence, magic and genius.

All humans have fear, and those of us who are fortunate have faith.

When it gets harder to love, love harder.

The time has come to move beyond eco-elitism to eco-populism.

Each and every one of us should stop playing small and license ourselves to become one of the giants of the new century. We will need champions by the truckload.

The usual pattern of demagogues is to promise the moon, fail to deliver, and then blame vulnerable others for those failures.

I'm willing to forgo the cheap satisfaction of the radical pose for the deep satisfaction of radical ends.

I read passionately with a need to know and see the act of reading as an act of cognition and not simply a means of passing time.

Here in California, one candidate for governor is a 100-year-old woman. She's going door-to-door and asking one simple question - 'Do I live here?'

Each concession we make is accompanied by an inner diminution of which we are not immediately conscious.

I was never my own type so I completely missed my beauty all through my youth.

Fear is the white lipp'd sire Of subterfuge and treachery.

But I don't want anybody to say have the right to say well if you bloody Brits don't like it go home. And they have the right to say that if you haven't become a citizen.

Legacy is what a president does that affects later generations.

The thing I really liked about Mickey was the way he treated everyone the same.

Family is more than DNA, more than who we used to be, more than we can imagine we will become.

Many of the world's best-designed cities have been inspired by garden concepts.