to always staying on top of the tables, you have to act like a champion.

If you know you're going to lose something so bad, let it go with your own hand.

I miss friends and family. If it weren't for visits from old friends and other African Americans I meet who come to Cuba, I'd probably be in some kind of time warp.

An organism at war with itself is doomed.

You can’t focus on what everyone else is doing — it has to be about what’s really broken and what you can do to fix it.

They put me on television. And the whole thing broke loose. It was wild, I tell ya for sure.

I propose that there is another kind of power based not on resources, things, or attributes, but rooted in the social and cooperative relations in which people are enmeshed by virtue of group life.

What if life is just a cosmic joke, like spiders in your underwear.

One of the principal qualities that you need as national security adviser is trust, the trust of the president. And that depends on truth and it depends on honesty.

I think in spring, we don't want to wear makeup, we don't want to wear a ton of clothes, we just want everything to be easier.

Design is the application of intent - the opposite of happenstance, and an antidote to accident.

The first thing you have to do is acknowledge the basic and fundamental goodness of all beings. If you don't, then you are going to have conflict. That's at the core of Shambhala.