The only way to solace anyone who loved you in life is to be a good memory

Hard times require furious dancing. Each of us is proof.

I think I'm led by spirit. I think I'm led by a sense of what is right and what feels good to me - what I accept, what is joyful, what is positive. I see my mission, in a way, as carrying that forward - not so much by preaching, but by embodiment.

You must run around like a crazy person or walk sedately honoring the dead.

You know a little drink now and then never hurt nobody, but when you can't git started without asking the bottle, you in trouble.

Human beings may well be unable to break free of the dictatorship of greed that spreads like a miasma over the world, but no longer will we be an inarticulate and ignorant humanity, confused by our enslavement to superior cruelty and weaponry.

I was distressed that after 9/11, when the United States was attacked by terrorists, the United States' response was to attack Afghanistan, where some of the terrorists had been.