Self-consciousness kills communication.

Be fanatically positive and militantly optimistic. If something is not to your liking, change your liking.

I would like travelers, especially American travelers, to travel in a way that broadens their perspective.

There's a huge difference between the more progressive and more regressive parts of America. That's just the way it is.

Fear is for people who don’t get out very much.

It's just in Washington we're talking about equal rights for gay people, civil liberty to smoke marijuana, taking care of the environment, and it's all just decency and common sense and patriotism. And in other parts of the country that would be, like, inconceivable.

If you can get conservatives to sit down for 20 minutes and listen to you on drug policy reform you might have a good chance to - if not convert them - at least respect your opinion.