At the core of everything that is hurtful to humanity is a lack of consciousness.

You've got to keep reminding yourself of what's important.

The book 'Do You!' is about your inner voice. And when you connect to that voice then you - then the freedom comes. And we're only here to be happy. So happy makes money. Money doesn't make happy.

It's always marketeers building their own careers.

Black actors on the road, flying around the country working as poets. Those people are inspirations for millions of kids who write.

Suffering will always be there. You'll always have the poor. You have to own your own progress. It is true that because of the economy and the fear factor the president [Barack Obama] is able to execute a lot of promises that it would be difficult to deliver it not for the fear factor. It's funny. He's delivering on what he promised and we call it fear.

I know a lot of angry liberals right now. Hell, I know a lot of angry vegans.