Emotionality is really easy for me. My father always said that Fondas can cry at a good steak.

In this country, the only way a minority can get anything done is to make a little noise.

Aging is a staircase - the upward ascension of the human spirit, bringing us into wisdom, wholeness and authenticity. As you may know, the entire world operates on a universal law: entropy, the second law of thermodynamics. Entropy means that everything in the world, everything, is in a state of decline and decay, the arch. There's only one exception to this universal law, and that is the human spirit, which can continue to evolve upwards.

Revolution is an act of love; we are the children of revolution, born to be rebels. It runs in our blood.

I spent a good deal of time going back over my childhood, my midlife, to try to understand who I was. We're supposed to be complete and whole, and you can't be whole if you're trying to be perfect. Doing a life review helped me get over the disease to please.

I don't think there's anything more important than making peace before it's too late. And it almost always falls to the child to try to move toward the parent.

I find that arduous physical labor can jump-start my thought process.