Well, I think indigenous peoples have ways of living on the Earth that they've had forever. And they've been overrun by organized religion, which has had a lot of money and power.

I have fallen in love with the imagination. And if you fall in love with the imagination, you understand that it is a free spirit. It will go anywhere, and it can do anything.

Womanist is to feminist as purple is to lavender.

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.

No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

Look closely at the present you are constructing: it should look like the future you are dreaming.

Whenever you are creating beauty around you, you are restoring your own soul.

I don’t need a certain number of friends, just a number of friends I can be certain of.

Every small positive change we make in ourselves repays us in confidence in the future.

In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they're still beautiful.

'Thank you' is the best prayer that anyone could say. I say that one a lot. Thank you expresses extreme gratitude, humility, understanding.

Corrupt citizens breed corrupt rulers, and it is the mob who finally decides when virtue shall die.

We assure you there is no separateness between you and God/Goddess/The All That Is other than your perception.

People ask me all the time, ALL the time, they say the same exact thing. They say, 'Bo, you're an artist... how do we fix Africa?'

You never know when you're going to get an opportunity.

I express many absurd opinions. But I am not the first man to do it; American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense.

Don't fall into the trap of believing so deeply in your own ideology that you cannot even see the flaws in it.

I think I'm innocently representing a certain belief in motion pictures, and, well OK.

Gyms are always packed. The only machine available is the one that simulates the gynecological exam. You know, the Sharon Stone machine.

My basic political posture is "what a shame the human race did this to earth." What we have done environmentally, politically, culturally.

When you start talking about government as 'we' instead of 'they,' you have been in office too long.