it is this broken road with pitfalls and sharp turns and unexpected traverses that has brought me joy and adventure.

Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.

I'm pore, I'm black, I may be ugly and can't cook, a voice say to everything listening. But I'm here.

We must, I believe, start teaching our children the sanity of nonviolence much earlier.

My parents taught me service - not by saying, but by doing. That was my culture, the culture of my family.

That is scary, when you consider what we're doing to children all over the planet. They're the ones who are truly being terrorized by all the madness adults are perpetrating.

Meditation is like the cloak of the good thief. You find a corner or somewhere where you can actually entertain your own self and your own soul, and understand what your work [is] here.