The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men.

You can't send me anywhere that I wouldn't be happy to go. You'd be surprised as to how that lightens the heart.

People who work hard often work too hard. ... May we learn to honor the hammock, the siesta, the nap and the pause in all its forms.

For in the end, freedom is a personal and lonely battle; and one faces down fears of today so that those of tomorrow might be engaged.

The experience of God, or in any case the possibility of experiencing God, is innate.

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.

In order to be able to live at all in America I must be unafraid to live anywhere in it, and I must be able to live in the fashion and with whom I choose.