It's relatively easy to generate a lot of enthusiasm for Puget Sound in the short term. Sustaining the effort to clean it up is somewhat tougher.

Nature provides a free lunch, but only if we control our appetites.

We need to fashion policies with proper incentives to reduce the amount of carbon we are putting in the atmosphere.

Why argue about things you can't prove?

The best way to win an argument is to begin by being right.

I have no hostility towards men. Some of my best friends are men. I married a man, and my father was a man.

No one should have to dance backward all of their lives.

It occurred to me when I was thirteen and wearing white gloves and Mary Janes and going to dancing school, that no one should have to dance backward all their lives.

Most bad people are good people that don’t know how to think critically. These people become the blind weapons of a society.

If you don't acquire the discipline to push through a personal low point, you will miss the reward that comes with persevering.

If Jesus forgave those who nailed Him to the cross, and if God forgives you and me, how can you withhold your forgiveness from someone else?

Black revolutionaries do not drop from the moon. We are created by our conditions. Shaped by our oppression.

When people look only at the surface and that satisfies them and they think from that surface they see, that is to be truly blind.

Would we prefer to be lifting it? Of course we would. You can't look back, we have to look forward and say what are we going to do get it back next year.

He that would be well, needs not goe from his owne house. [He that would be well needs not go from his own house.]

Comedy is what I really want to do and propel.

I read somewhere that drummers are practically Olympic athletes. I feel pretty good, most of the time. After 38 years, I can't expect much better than that!