As I "won," I didn't feel the fruits of that. I felt the fruits when I served others, when I gave myself away. . . . I've always seen my life as an experiment. I just want to go to what works. As I felt the charity aspect in my life, the giving aspect, I felt a power and I've walked more into that.

Hope is the belief we might get it done, and faith is the knowledge we will get it done.

I wasn't paying enough attention to what my heart was telling me. When I paid attention and got the message, I could move forward and heal.

If you bounce a tennis ball against a wall it will come back to you the same way every time. But if you shift the wall a few degrees it will come back another way.

Communism didn't work because people weren't ready for it, it was corrupt, and because it squelched individualism.

Look at native cultures - they've lasted for tens of thousands of years, not doing everything right. We wouldn't want to emulate them in many ways, but their basic philosophies - being a part of nature, a part of a tribe or group without elevating, not what you call dominator philosophies - they lasted for tens of thousands of years. It took us to come and put them asunder.

I don't have any interest in changing a system, because the system will simply get bucked back by people who haven't changed.