White Americans have a short memory.

Everybody likes to have a place to think, to meditate, to eat a burrito.

If you let people into your life a little bit, they can be pretty damn amazing.

He loved her, of course, but better than that, he chose her, day after day. Choice: that was the thing.

Life is a constant struggle between being an individual and being a member of the community.

If you teach kids how to tell stories, they have a better chance at everything.

What kind of life can you have in a house without books?

Don't live up to your stereotypes.

When you resort to violence to prove a point, you’ve just experienced a profound failure of imagination.

If one reads enough books one has a fighting chance. Or better, one's chances of survival increase with each book one reads.

Do you know why the Indian rain dances always worked? Because the Indians would keep dancing until it rained.

Nothing can stop you from being happy except yourself. Focus on positive thoughts.

#Note: There is a wonder to life. Pursue it. Hunt for it. Your goal is not to live long…it’s to live!

What I am mourning is perhaps not worth saving, but I regret its loss nevertheless.

Marriage equality - I think that it's a constitutionally guaranteed right. Let's end the drug wars. Let's balance the federal budget, and that means reforming the entitlements - Medicaid, Medicare.

Unless you're God, you are never too "big" to be a fan.

A man had to learn, it was his nature.

I can be someone's and still be my own.

To live well and honorably and justly are the same thing.

I’ve always been a person who’s been true to myself and true to others and I’m not afraid to be honest.

It's new, it's improved, it's old fashioned.