I was always kind of finding humor to be an access point to the conversation, to a pain relief, if you will. My mother was in a wheelchair since I was very young, so she was in pain and we used humor.

Our own economy tells us to take as much as we can get, right? Our own economy says, you're going to be the most successful graduate if you go into the business world and take as much you can get. That's not how nature works. Nature has a much simpler economy. Everything in nature takes what it needs. That's it. You don't see an oak tree gathering up all the resources. An oak tree takes what it needs to be the authentic oak tree it is.

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.

The one thing that advances a society is not technology or so-called development; its love - that one principle.

When an individual changes in even a small way he immediately changes the world around him. And that concentric circle moves out and changes everything.

I'm from the Madeleine L'Engle school. The more she delves into science, the more she knows there's a creator who's behind these amazing laws, these amazing events. The symmetry of nature, the structure and order of it.

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