By puberty I learned that nothing worth having could be easily attained and to succeed one must be single minded.

The right to free speech is important but it isn't as important as 'we're all human beings together, let's find solutions together.'

I've never had a sustained period of medication for mental illness when I've not been on other drugs as well. It's just not something that I particularly feel I need. I know that I have dramatically changing moods, and I know sometimes I feel really depressed, but I think that's just life. I don't think of it as, "Ah, this is mental illness," more as, "Today, life makes me feel very sad." I know I also get unnaturally high levels of energy and quickness of thought, but I'm able to utilize that.

Addiction is a serious desease; it will end with jail, mental institutions or death.

The more people who have access to this vital information the better society will be.

One of the great sadnesses of modern life, because of our disenfranchisement and disillusionment with religion, is that we don't have access to these ideas. Yoga and meditation, for me, is a way of, in this secular world, accessing very very beautiful principles that would perhaps make us happier, at a time when people feel disillusioned with the economy, concerned about the ecology, worried with politicians, and don't trust what they're being told on television.

I'm not better than you; I'm just different than you in a way that's better.