We gave up having a TV last year. I am out of the loop. Life is way better than TV. I recommend it to anyone who has forgotten they have one.

People in power need to control others in order to maintain power. One of the ways to do that is to take that which is threatening and demonize it.

If one is desperate for love, I suggest looking at one's friends and family and see if love is all around. If not, get a new set of friends, a new family.

Bigotry and judgment are the height of insecurity.

It is a full time job being honest one moment at a time, remembering to love, to honor, to respect. It is a practice, a discipline, worthy of every moment.

The building of friendship, family, community and love is complicated. We are so isolated in this country, no longer supported by tribes and villages.

I am very sad for men and women trapped in any relationship where there is cruelty, dominance, inequity. I long for the liberation of all people.

I believe people who practice their beliefs in daily life are activists.

I want word of mouth to be our biggest voice.

An activist is one who is actively involved in creating community, whether that is locally in their neighborhood or internationally. It is an admirable quality.

The state and the church seldom approve of anything I do. I don't need their approval. I don't aspire to the heterosexual nuclear family model

If in your heart you make a manger for his birth then God will once again become a child on earth.

Banquet: a plate of cold, hairy chicken and artificially coloured green peas completely surrounded by dreary speeches and appeals for donations.

When I was a kid and got in trouble, I'd always say, Mom, I'm in trouble. Well, Mom, I'm in trouble.

It doesn't matter to criminals if the event is called a gun show or a flea market -- if they can buy guns.

This is a world inhabited not by people who have to be persuaded to believe but by people who want an excuse to believe.

Why should I? I've done nothing to be ashamed of. I am not ashamed - I am only beaten

When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an incarnation.

Money is what you'd get on beautifully without if only other people weren't so crazy about it.

My policy is trust peace and to put aside the bayonet.

For freemen like brothers agree; With one spirit endured, they one friendship pursued, And their temple was Liberty Tree