Work should be in order to live. We don't live in order to work. That shift in awareness is necessary.

Compassion is not pity ... compassion never considers an object as weak or inferior. Compassion, one might say, works from a strength born of awareness of shared weakness, and not from someone else's weakness. And from the awareness of the mutuality of us all. Thus to put down another as in pity is to put down oneself.

A lot of people want to see this idealized version of heroism, all pretty and perfect, and I'm not interested in playing the goody-goody hero at all.

Cars are part of our genetic makeup. It's unavoidable.

I played football for a huge portion of my life, all the way through college actually.

Soul is our appetite, driving us to eat from the banquet of life. People filled with the hunger of soul take food from every dish before them, whether it be sweet or bitter.

We are in the cosmos and the cosmos is in us.