A lot of the stuff that we say about drugs is just wrong.

Incarceration is as useful for addiction as it is for diabetes - i.e., not useful and potentially harmful, particularly for kids.

The thing about our drug laws is that they're not based on science.

We have a system that was devised by racists to create racist ends.

I think our drug laws need to be made scientifically, as best as possible, recognizing that values will always be part of that.

We should not be putting kids in cages and hoping that is going to fix their psychological problems of any type.

In order for people to recover, we can't just say 'love is all we need.'

In a criminal justice setting, it's very hard to create a therapeutic environment where people do feel safe, but the real important thing to do is to do your best to do that.

He could not afford to indulge misery, to live in the past and stumble through life facing backwards.

Being a husband is a whole time job. That is why so many husbands fail. They cannot give their entire attention to it.

... the way we view death determines, to a surprising degree, the way we live our lives.

I don't know anyone who sits down to write a song hit except Irving Berlin. He can't help writing hits.

Money can't buy you love, but it can get you some really good chocolate ginger biscuits.

I don't think art is in danger of dissolution or disappearance, and we don't trust enough in its ability and power to create critical consciousness as much as we think we do.

I've always said the shoes must never tell the foot how big to be.

The history of Wall Street is inseparable from New York.

Be light. Smile. Drop. Learn the tendency to drop and smile and move through.

There was still gold and silver in the mountains, And hunger was a more immediate sorrow