The funny thing about sustainability is you gotta sustain it.

We gotta flip the script on what a gangsta is - if you ain't a gardener, you ain't gangsta.

South Central Los Angeles [is the] home of the drive-thru and the drive-by. Funny thing is, the drive-thrus are killing more people than the drive-bys.

If children live with hostility, they learn to fight. If they live with fear, they learn to be apprehensive. If they live with criticism, they learn to condemn.

We've gotten so far away from our food source. It's been hijacked from us. But if you get soil, plant something in it and water it, you can feed yourself. It's that simple.

Even if your pockets are empty, never forget to fill your heart with love.

It's funny how the ugly duckling always has so many beautiful things to teach us.

Sometimes you only get one chance to rewrite the qualities of the character you played in a person's life story. Always take it. Never let the world read the wrong version of you.

I've been lucky that I've been around good people, who kept me grounded and taught me.

Mimicking the herd invites regression to the mean.

He who has renounced all violence towards all living beings, weak or strong, who neither kills nor causes others to kill - him I do call a holy man.

One of my extraordinary regrets about my death is not so much that it's going to happen but simply that I'll never know what happens next.

All I ever wanted to do is to write stories that people will enjoy and feel at home with.

Space for the sunflower, bright with yellow glow, To court the sky.

Tis the mind that makes the body rich.