As I get older, I realize that the thing I value the most is good-heartednes s.

You don't need organized religion to connect with the universe. Often a church is the only place you can go to find peace and quiet... But it shouldn't be confused with connecting with one's spirit.

If I'm killed - if I'm removed - there is nowhere else for me to go but to my ancestors.

Our problem mostly in our abuse of each other and the planet is greed. Just the rampant, incredible greed that people have partly because they're empty and they can't get enough because they're - you know, it's that Buddhist thing about the hungry ghost with the little mouth and the big belly.

Activism pays the rent on being alive and being here on the planet.

I don't know nothing, I think. And glad of it.

I think there is a sense of being forced at this time to look at America's really large shadow and that's not all that bad.