I'm mad about the waste that happens when people who love each other can't even bring themselves to talk.

Anybody can observe the Sabbath, but making it holy surely takes the rest of the week.

I feel like to be where you need to be - where you know you need to be - is such a high. What could be better?

My activism really is for myself, because I see places in the world where I feel I should be. If there is something really bad, really evil, happening somewhere, then that is where I should be. I need, for myself, to feel that I have stood there. It feels a lot better than just watching it on television.

At one point I learned transcendental meditation. This was 30-something years ago. It took me back to the way that I naturally was as a child growing up way in the country, rarely seeing people. I was in that state of oneness with creation and it was as if I didn't exist except as a part of everything.

And so our mothers and grandmothers have, more often than not anonymously, handed on the creative spark, the seed of the flower they themselves never hoped to see - or like a sealed letter they could not plainly read.

I'm sure we, the American people, are the butt of jokes by those in power.