My mom was an environmental activist in Australia in the late ’60s and ’70s and I guess I’ve inherited that awareness from her.

I can't do victim roles - it makes me sick.

My mom was an environmental activist in Australia in the late '60s and '70s, and I guess I've inherited that awareness from her.

Thinking belongs to duality. Love belongs to the Oneness. There is no thought without judgment, there is no Unconditional Love without the silence of the mind.

I did not take off our clothes, and did not enter you, and did not touch you. However, we practice love.

Regard ye the world as a man's body, which is afflicted with diverse ailments, and the recovery of which dependeth upon the harmonizing of all its component elements.

Life is too short for men to take it seriously.

I dont really ever compare myself to other people, I dont even measure myself in terms of anyone but myself.

The rights of no oppressed people have ever yet been obtained by a voluntary act of justice on the part of the oppressors.

He's my elvis. I idolize Nusrat, he's a god, too

It's impossible to explain to a Yankee what 'tacky' is. They simply have no word for it up north, but my God, do they ever need one.

The belief in potential human virtue underlies the whole idea of the Bill of Rights; the document is a very tough guardian of that belief.

If there is something comforting - religious, if you want - about paranoia, there is still also anti-paranoia, where nothing is connected to anything, a condition not many of us can bear for long.