I woke up and was walking on a mountain, and I thought, "What's the worst thing that humans could do to the planet? Make it uninhabitable for humans and kill wildlife."

Water is the most purifying element. It's always involved in baptisms, healings, that kind of work.

I believe that music should be grown on trees, to be plucked like a fruit without the extravagance of harvest.

Learning how to listen to others and how to listen to your own thoughts is the ultimate process.

What happens in our consciousness and minds and bodies is also happening on earth. The more we pollute the earth, for example, the sicker we are.

Working with the Latin language is pretty powerful. Working with a language that is not spoken vernacularly is intense.

Who approaches collaboration with agenda in terms of content? The agenda is only in terms of process, which is generosity, listening, careful thinking.

When you sit with people and you can hear what they're hearing, that's quite interesting.

All these emotions are coming from one thing - sound. It's not coming from your experiences in life, your childhood. It's related to those things, but it's being triggered by the sound.

I love the pleasure of finding the same truth in two different places. It has a lot to do with a soul.

The most appealing part is the feeling of learning something true - the pleasure of a truth. For me, that's mostly found in philosophical literature at the moment.

Leadership can mean defiance.

You can't force folks to have good sense, even if they're family. Maybe especially then.

Whoever wants peace among nations must seek to limit the state and its influence most strictly.

In the eyes of government we are just one race here. It is American.

When I hold you, you will be the Duchess of Earl.

I have always been a grumbler. I am designed for the part - sagging face, weighty underlip, rumbling, resonant voice. Money couldn't buy a better grumbling outfit.

As Hamlet, the Prince of Denmark, had said in Shakespeare's immortal words, 'I must be cruel only to be kind.

I enjoy many silent moments with my cat, a conversation always resumed exactly where left off.

I think that it is always hard to find two voices that fit together well.