I think almost everything important that's ever happened was unimaginable shortly before it happened. Good things and bad things: ending slavery, ending child labor, women voting, etc.

The United States is a rogue state violating international law in many, many ways that California wouldn't have to if it seceded and became a nation.

Activism has always been the driving force for change.

The Pentagon is supposed to be under civilian control and it ought to be up to the people of the United States, not the profiteers.

No other nation killed people the way the United States did to end slavery.

California as a nation or part of a larger West Coast nation, should other states join with California, would be a good influence on the rest of the United States.

The United States has been becoming worse year after year after year for decades, and it's guaranteed to continue down that path if we don't change something.

Many militarists would like to see California's votes vanish from the national electoral system, which would then become more Republican.

Climate change is so unimaginable that most Americans deny it's happening.

I think the election of Donald Trump, if you want to call it an election, was unimaginable to most people, which is part of how it happened.

Imagine Jon Stewart if he gave a damn. He's like Howard Zinn after 12 beers.

You're never too old to be young.

Worry’s magnetic attraction can only be broken by a stronger attraction, and David is saying [in Psalm 27] we can only find that attraction in God Himself.

Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.

I still make sure to go, at least once every year, to a country where things cannot be taken for granted, and where there is either too much law and order or too little.

Your employees know each other better than they know you.

If it is warming, it's because it's happened before, cyclitic, it will happen again, regardless of what you and I do.

Rock is about finding who you are. You don't necessarily have to play your instrument very well at all. You can just barely get by and you can be in a rock band.

I'm a pragmatic man. I'll veer on the dangerous side, because I love dangerous subjects, but I won't shoot a show in the foot.

I truly believe that the individual who learns to practice thanksgiving activates within himself and around himself continuous victories and blessings from God.

I kind of have a dilettantish spirit about me