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?

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

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

My mother had handed down respect for the possibilities...and the will to grasp them.

I feel very happy to be living in Berkeley because there are a lot of people who are politically active here.

You can't truly have an open heart until it's been broken.

To acknowledge our ancestors means we are aware that we did not make ourselves, that the line stretches all the way back, perhaps to God; or to Gods. We remember them because it is an easy thing to forget: that we are not the first to suffer, rebel, fight, love and die. The grace with which we embrace life, in spite of the pain, the sorrow, is always a measure of what has gone before.