I talk about very serious human affairs but with a lightness of heart.

Ignorance and power and pride are a deadly mixture, you know.

I fear the boredom that comes with not learning and not taking chances.

If someone were to ask me whether I believed in God, or saw God, or had a particular relationship with God, I would reply that I don't separate God from my world in my thinking. I feel that God is everywhere. That's why I never feel separated from God or feel I must seek God, any more than a fish in the ocean feels it must seek water. In a sense, God is the "ocean" in which we live.

I talk about very serious human affairs but with a lightness of heart.

Think what a better world it would be if we all - the whole world - had cookies and milk about three o'clock every afternoon and then lay down with our blankies for a nap. Or if all governments had as a basic policy to always put things back where they found them and to clean up their own mess. And it is still true, no matter how old you are - when you go out into the world, it is best to hold hands and stick together.

Is it always to be a winners-losers world, or can we keep everyone in the game? Do we still have what it takes to find a better way?