In the Cleveland area, I have been instrumental in helping to save or create thousands of jobs. People know me there as a person who gets involved.

Active citizenship begins with an envisioning of the desired outcome and a conscious application of spiritual principles.

Everyone should have health insurance? I say everyone should have health care. I'm not selling insurance.

We cannot avert our eyes without staining our souls.

I am running for President of the United States to enable the Goddess of Peace to encircle within her arms all the children of this country and all the children of the world.

I take issue with many people's description of people being illegal Immigrants. There aren't any illegal Human Beings as far as I'm concerned.

The FDA has received over a million comments from citizens demanding labeling of GMOs. 90 percent of Americans agree. So, why no labeling?

I am for police function that protects citizens of this great Nation, not a police function that is used to terrorize them.

I have worked to expand the health care debate beyond the current for-profit system, to include a public option and an amendment to free the states to pursue single payer.

Fear is a weapon of mass destruction.

We must work toward the elimination of all nuclear weapons, and an end to policies which cause this country to move toward the weaponization of space.

Fears will cost your life.

Don't panic. Say, Hey, no problem. Run a hand through your hair like the whiteboys do even though the only thing that runs easily through your hair is Africa.

I just grew the hair on my back. Facial hair just wasn't appealing to me. I liked it on my back, though.

I'm still basically an idealist, which translates into getting real things done to make people's lives better.

I said that I'm only there to write the truth, I'm not going to cover anything up, but I'll put everything in context and get as close to the truth of this person as I can.

The older I grow the more earnestly I feel that the few joys of childhood are the best that life has to give.

I don't think any writer chooses what his or her work is called.

Never look for a worm in the apple of your eye.

Originality is... a by-product of sincerity.

If we have been able to give happiness to a soul-even for a minute-it makes our life blessed.