They don't consider nicotine as a drug. Why don't they put it together with all the other drugs?

What I say is focus your mind and respect your body. But mostly love your heart. I think that is where to begin, from there and then it goes out.

Be a little kinder to each other.

Ignorance, according to the Buddha, is our basic difficulty. Psychedelics and the process of aging make that clear to me all the time.

The teenage pregnancy is such a tragic thing. It is such a sad and tragic thing because the children who have children do it because they think they are going to be loved. They are going to be loved, but they have to give love to be loved otherwise the child becomes depressed. Isolated and depressed. In other words apathetic.

There is danger in everything that we do.

Anybody can make a baby without any checking, without thinking. This type of parenting can be tragic because one of the greatest actions a human being can do is to create another life.