Reality is ultimately a selective act of perception and interpretation. A shift in our perception and interpretation enables us to break old habits and awaken new possibilities for balance, healing, and transformation.

The drug war is a holocaust in slow motion.

With more than 80 percent of Americans living in metropolitan areas, there are still demagogues who want to run down the idea of multiculturalism, of urbanity, being the only future we have. We either live or die based on how we live in cities, and our society is either going to be great or not based on how we perform as creatures of the city.

Homicide is the major leagues, the center ring, the show. It always has been ... It goes beyond academic degrees, specialized training or book learning, because all the theory in the world means nothing if you can't read the street.

We either live or die based on how we live in cities, and our society is either going to be great or not based on how we perform as creatures of the city.

Rural America's not coming back. That idea was lost with the Industrial Revolution.

The beauty of love is that in giving it away, you are left with more than you had before.