I want to fight poverty and ignorance and give opportunity to those people who are locked out.

You have to be present, awake and happy now.

Service is the key to everything in life.

What holds most people back isn't the quality of their ideas, but their lack of faith in themselves.

If you talk about the prison-industrial complex, I've fought against the prison-industrial complex when I called for a repeal of the Rockefeller drug laws. The biggest impediment to get the laws changed was the lobbyists. Whether you're talking about healthcare, jobs going overseas, or tax reform, you're always coming up against lobbyists.

I'm not a politician. I only want to help relieve the suffering in communities, and I want to help people see their community in each other.

No matter what we've done or where we've been, every single one of us can change.