My measure of success is to walk into a restaurant and hear a table debating drug policy. Once the public start the conversation, the politicians will join - that is when we can create real change.

[As in the case of] alcohol prohibition, illegality has driven organized crime, sent countless people to jail, and killed many thousands. Repression does not work.

Incarceration has become a business. It is in the interest of the police and the prisons to keep locking people up.

Drugs are available to those who want them. And where are those profits going? Into organized crime, [to criminals] who spend their profits on the destruction of whole societies.

Through social media, we can start a global conversation. This creates an army of advocates - the power really is in the hands of the viewers.

Even the best documentaries reach tens of thousands in their cinematic window. I believe that by launching online, we could potentially reach millions.

How do you create a film that can reach millions of people and engage them in the subject? You have to take risks and try something new.

If you have a drug problem, you should be sent to a doctor, not a jail cell.

Whether through TV, film, online, app, or web, we will find ways to tell our stories with authenticity, and engage with our viewers beyond traditional means.

Never let your fears hold you back. Fears are not easily overcome but when you take the time to be brave it is worth the struggle.

To hope is to wait for things to come to you. To dream is part of the process of setting goals and then striving to achieve them. You first must dream of doing things before you can do them.

Men need marriage more than women do. In fact, they need it to survive.

There is a deep need in the world just now for guidance - almost any sort of spiritual guidance.

There aren't many irritations to match the condescension which a woman metes out to a man who she believes has loved her vainly for the past umpteen years.

Ethical veganism represents a commitment to nonviolence.

Power is action; the electoral principle is discussion. No political action is possible when discussion is permanently established.

I wanted more in depth ideas about the character and it never came.

Clinton was very early on aware of the problem of international terrorism.

Only the intelligent knows how to identify all things as one. . . . When one is at ease with himself, one is near Tao. This is to let Nature take its own course.