Thinking that everything must be bigger to matter is a problem. Small power emanates and disseminates in a very different way.

We are stronger than we think we are. We have courage that we do not recognize until we need it. We are equal to challenges that we haven't even imagined yet

The world over, give a guy money and it goes to drinking, gambling, and women. When you give a woman money, it goes to feeding, clothing, helping people.

There are so many people in the communities in need and so many organizations in need. People are doing amazing, beautiful things just to keep the world from not hurting more today than yesterday.

It didn't matter how big our house was; it mattered that there was love in it.

In some ways, it's easier to settle for someone else's version of success than to risk falling short at one's own.

What we have is a crisis of imagination. Albert Einstein said that you cannot solve a problem with the same mind-set that created it.

I do think men fear female intuition.

I think influence is one way to exercise power and that the challenge is whether it is power over or power with. That's the essential shift that I hope can happen in the world.

Patriarchy is connected to greed, a symptom of a larger force that can only be dispelled through kindness and love. It's basic Buddhism.

It's too bad that it takes egregious behavior or some kind of crisis to get people to take notice and get clearer about things that were just below the surface.

The energy of mindfulness has the element of friendship and loving kindness in it.

Medical professionals, not insurance company bureaucrats, should be making health care decisions.

I am the doctor of our family, and I am a big fan of homeopathy.

Most people don't form a self and then lead a life. They are called by a problem, and the self is constructed gradually by their calling.

The idea that if you don’t like how things are going, you can just leave is so engrained in Texas, the secession movement is no surprise.

My last supper would be a charcuterie smorgasbord with every kind of meat, and sauces to dip them in.

I've got a great life. It's a shame the work gets in the way of the golf, really.

I'm only involved really right now with the Art Ensemble of Chicago and the Brass Fantasy.

Faith is the consolation of the wretched and the terror of the happy.

In addition, the oil royalties the Federal Government does not collect from big oil will starve the Land and Water Conservation Fund of critical financial resources.