While I think storytelling is a meaningful way to spend your life... it does feel a little bit secondary or off-point.

The beauty of love is that in giving it away, you are left with more than you had before.

Awakening into love is a lifelong path.

The drug war is a holocaust in slow motion.

A little anger is a good thing if it isn't on your own behalf, if it's for others deserving of your anger, your empathy.

Every day, human beings are worth less. That's the triumph of capitalism. The money gets made, and the fewer people we need to make that money.

People from here will often say, "I'm not from the United States, I'm from New Orleans."

To be told you've won a MacArthur fellowship is very flattering and gratifying personally.

Genuine inner freedom is the ultimate aim of life. It is the unspoken goal of every thought you have and every action you take.

Life is too short to carry the burden of a heavy heart. It does not serve you or anyone else. Free yourself through the power of forgiveness and compassion.

The best #‎ gift we can give in any interaction is to leave people feeling lighter, #‎ happier , and more at #‎ peace .

I was not much used to women except for mothers. Everything I did, they did different.

If Republicans eliminate Medicare, America will become a country in which you can never retire - and once you physically can no longer work, you are desperately poor until you die.

I sabotage myself for fear of what my bigness could do.

Could I tell them I was sorry their loved one was dead, when he’d tried to kill me? There was no rule of etiquette for this; even my grandmother would have been stymied.

I do think that some bands seem to be dabbling in the rock-hip-hop world and are not necessarily serious about it.

Was it love when somebody filled a space in your life that yawned inside you, once they had gone?

I'd say that individuals are respected who stick to their convictions instead of doing whatever happens to be in fashion.

I'm always afraid that I'm being unprofessional, yet I continue to sign all my e-mails 'xoxo.'

Faith is my motivation to win.

You got to do more than just live in the country to be a Farmer.