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?

I just really love people a lot. I really love them.

The infinite faith I have in people's ability to understand anything that makes sense has always been justified, finally, by their behavior.

The good news may be that Nature is phasing out the white man, but the bad news is that's who She thinks we all are.

I think America has always been polarized... It's a racist country and it has always been.

It has become a common feeling, I believe, as we have watched our heroes falling over the years, that our own small stone of activism, which might not seem to measure up to the rugged boulders of heroism we have so admired, is a paltry offering toward the building of an edifice of hope. Many who believe this choose to withhold their offerings out of shame. This is the tragedy of the world. For we can do nothing substantial toward changing our course on the planet, a destructive one, without rousing ourselves, individual by individual, and bringing our small, imperfect stones to the pile.

I know from having had a child, and from having been a child myself, that children will copy you. So, the best way to get them to read, is to read. The best way to get them to do anything is to do it yourself, and they will absolutely copy you. That way, you don't have to worry about what's supposedly age appropriate, a child will pick something up when the child is ready.