I see a lot of damage to Mother Earth. I see water being taken from creeks where water belongs to animals, not to oil companies.

Someone needs to explain to me why wanting clean drinking water makes you an activist, and why proposing to destroy water with chemical warfare doesnt make a corporation a terrorist.

Hope is essential to any political struggle for radical change when the overall social climate promotes disillusionment and despair.

We are a part of everything that is beneath us, above us, and around us. Our past is our present, our present is our future, and our future is seven generations past and present.

If we build a society based on honoring the earth, we build a society which is sustainable, and has the capacity to support all life forms.

Let us be the ancestors our descendants will thank.

There is no social-change fairy. There is only change made by the hands of individuals.

The difference between a white man and an Indian is this- A white man wants to leave money to his children. An Indian wants to leave forests.

What we all need to do is find the wellspring that keeps us going, that gives us the strength and patience to keep up this struggle for a long time.

The only compensation for land is land.

It's time to transition beyond our fossil fuel addiction to a just economy based on green jobs, renewable energy, and local organic food.

To truly be of service to others, we must first serve the server. The ability to bring an enlightened presence to those in need is the ability to light a candle without burning ourselves out.

You must understand the texture of your hair before you choose a style.

The sheer number of government employees and welfare recipients effectively transforms the purpose of government from maintaining order to confiscating as much as possible from vulnerable taxpayers.

I'd like to do plays, maybe a one man show.

I like any title with the letters U.S. in front of it. To me, the U.S. Open is the most important tournament in the world.

The Bible is to religion what the Iliad is to poetry

I do not cook. However, if I did, I'd cook all Italian food, all the time.

I went to college in Ohio, at Ohio University, and I graduated two years ago.

There must be equality of all men before God and in a democratic society. Now that's one of the great achievements.

I won't glorify or romanticise heartbreak, for me it was a kind of death and I was forced to keep living.