I know the books that I need to help me to be wiser than my years and be kinder and more compassionate and more patient than I really am.

I look at Thich Nhat Hanh and I look at Marshall Rosenberg, and they're more concerned about the long range. And that long range means that you have to sit down with people who don't think like you. I want to reach people who don't think like me.

The experience taught me to be present in the real Buddhist sense of paying attention to the moment.

When you have a flourishing of the economy you have a flourishing of the arts.

Marshall Rosenberg talks about how we can create peace in the communities we work with. He's been traveling to warring nations to create peace within those countries.

'Hispanic' is English for a person of Latino origin who wants to be accepted by the white status quo. 'Latino' is the word we have always used for ourselves.

I want to write an essay called "Fear of Mexico," because I always feel like Mexico's this lover that never writes to me.