You don't have to be a preacher to talk about what matters, and you don't have to drop the pleasures of style

There is no one as dangerous as he or she who has nothing to lose.

Leave the door open for the unknown, the door into the dark. That’s where the most important things come from, where you yourself came from, and where you will go.

A book is a heart that only beats in the chest of another.

To be hopeful means to be uncertain about the future, to be tender toward possibilities, to be dedicated to change all the way down to the bottom of your heart.

Worry is a way to pretend that you have knowledge or control over what you don't--and it surprises me, even in myself, how much we prefer ugly scenarios to the pure unknown.

Joy doesn't betray but sustains activism. And when you face a politics that aspires to make you fearful, alienated and isolated, joy is a fine initial act of insurrection.

Politics is pervasive. Everything is political and the choice to be "apolitical" is usually just an endorsement of the status quo and the unexamined life.

Memory, even in the rest of us, is a shifting, fading, partial thing, a net that doesn't catch all the fish by any means and sometimes catches butterflies that don't exist.

Every minute of every hour of every day you are making the world, just as you are making yourself, and you might as well do it with generosity and kindness and style.

Revolution is as unpredictable as an earthquake and as beautiful as spring. Its coming is always a surprise, but its nature should not be.

My love is toxic and you're suicidal.

Prayer is energy. Try to come from a higher, lighter vibration of gratitude and expectation, in place of worry and fear.

Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.

With my family, my sons both love music and play music, and they're really good at it.

And people are intrigued if I really am as grumpy in real life. People feel a bit let down if I'm laughing or smiling.

I'm going to be real as hell and show you who I am, because I want the kids to see who I really am and the basketball players to see who I really am, and that's all that matters to me.

Any time you put too many sparks around a powder keg, the thing is going to explode, and if the things that explodes is still inside the house, then the house will be destroyed.

When our deepest desire is not the things of God, or a favor from God, but God Himself, we cross a threshold.

Good energy was never meant to be waisted on idiocy.

The mission of the artist in an over-technologi zed society, is to call the old magic back to life.