I don't really think our government at heart wants peace. So I urge you, write to Mrs. Laura Bush, because she reads.

I think one of the great primordial fears we have once we become conscious of our aloneness as children is the fear of losing our mother. We have that from the moment we realize we can lose her just in the supermarket. As a child, it was more terrifying than arithmetic.

There's all kinds of ways to wean yourself off of sugar - because it is like an addiction.

I think there's some great stuff coming. I do feel that. I think we have reached our Harlem Renaissance.

You know how sometimes you meet writers that are so full of themselves? They feel really proud that they wrote something . But what they don't understand - and I like to tell this to writers - is that writing is like fishing. It's just like fishing. If you don't fish that often, you're not going to catch that many fish.

I've been on television saying, "¡Vamos a la biblioteca!". That was great. Nobody had ever asked me.

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.