I think influence is one way to exercise power and that the challenge is whether it is power over or power with. That's the essential shift that I hope can happen in the world.

We are stronger than we think we are. We have courage that we do not recognize until we need it. We are equal to challenges that we haven't even imagined yet

The world over, give a guy money and it goes to drinking, gambling, and women. When you give a woman money, it goes to feeding, clothing, helping people.

There are so many people in the communities in need and so many organizations in need. People are doing amazing, beautiful things just to keep the world from not hurting more today than yesterday.

It didn't matter how big our house was; it mattered that there was love in it.

In some ways, it's easier to settle for someone else's version of success than to risk falling short at one's own.

What we have is a crisis of imagination. Albert Einstein said that you cannot solve a problem with the same mind-set that created it.

I do think men fear female intuition.

Patriarchy is connected to greed, a symptom of a larger force that can only be dispelled through kindness and love. It's basic Buddhism.

It's too bad that it takes egregious behavior or some kind of crisis to get people to take notice and get clearer about things that were just below the surface.

If you can intuit well, you're essentially meeting the future faster.

How simpler our lives would be if we could stay the same! We are here on the planet to learn, grow, and evolve.

That government is the strongest of which every man feels himself a part.

I've got to think he's the only guy who smiled when he walked up to the podium. I love that about it and he brings that personality on the field.

I never knew that I would see the day that I would meet the devil himself.

I didn't want to change my personality onstage, but I still had to build some kind of ego to be able to go up there. If not, there's no point.

Below Every Tangled Hierarchy Lies An Inviolate Level

We may avoid the laws of man, but there are greater laws that can't be broken.

This is one of the consequences of the civil war. People stop trusting each other, and every stranger becomes an enemy.

The new shopping malls make possible the synthesis of all consumer activities, not least of which are shopping, flirting with objects, idle wandering, and all the permutations of these.