Why wouldn't you want to be the envy of your neighbors by being so good and so generous and so smart in how you use the power that you obviously have? That's my patriotism.

The light that stopped the night felt like forgiveness.

I'm just trying to be part of the movement that decentralizes and hopefully creates peace. By supporting smaller, democratic structures, you can effect change.

When people in government [make mistakes], they don't say, those people in the government. They say, we've got a problem to solve.

And the ones that know you so well are the ones that can swallow you whole.

But social justice and the environment are very tied together in my head.

In the laughing times we know that we are lucky, and in the quiet times we know that we are blessed. And we will not be alone.