Money and power by themselves are a two-legged stool. You can balance on them for a while, but eventually you're going to topple over.

Failure is an integral part of life and that perfection is not of this world.

We all have within us a centered place of wisdom, harmony, and balance.

The most effective means for restoring the integrity of our electoral process, and repairing the public's tattered faith in its elected representatives, is through the full public financing of political campigns. It's the mother of all reforms: the one reform that makes all other reforms possible. After all, he who pays the piper calls the tune. If someone's going to own the politicians, it might as well be the American people.

The happiest people are the most giving people

The middle class is teetering on the brink of collapse just as surely as AIG was in the fall of 2009 - only this time, it's not just one giant insurance company (and its banking counterparties) facing disaster, it's tens of millions of hardworking Americans who played by the rules.

We forget we’re mostly water till the rain falls and every atom in our body starts to go home.