I was blessed to be part of a commercial, pushing for this energy bill, but we've been unsuccessful.

Never before has the seductive market way of life held such sway in nearly every sphere of American life. This marketing way of life promotes addictions to stimulation and obsessions with comfort and convenience ... centered primarily around bodily pleasures and status rankings. ... The common denominator is a rugged and ragged individualism and rapacious hedonism in quest of a perennial "high" in body and mind.

Try to just be true to ourselves, whoever we are, but willing to grow, even as we're true to ourselves.

Never forget that justice is what love looks like in public

I think anytime we talk about transforming in capitalist society, we are talking about a process not a particular event so you can't talk about a socialist revolution.

I'm actually with the classics in general in terms of understanding truth in an existential mode. Therefore, philosophy becomes more a way of life as opposed to simply a mode of discourse.

The blues aren’t pessimistic. We’re prisoners of hope but we tell the truth and the truth is dark.