"People internalize, from the jail to student loan debt, to credit card debt, to unemployment to the whole collective. It manifests itself in many ways, in people's home lives, domestic stuff."

"Never look down on anybody unless you're helping him up."

"If there are occasions when my grape turned into a raisin and my joy bell lost its resonance, please forgive me. Charge it to my head and not to my heart."

"Our dreams must be stronger than our memories. We must be pulled by our dreams, rater than pushed by our memories."

"Peace of heart is the greatest luxury life can bestow upon the mortal traveler — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"It's time to let science and medicine, not politics and rhetoric, lead us to good, sound policy."

"We experience problem-solving sessions as war zones, we view competing ideas as enemies, and we use problems as weapons to blame and defeat opposition forces. No wonder we can't come up with real lasting solutions!"

"The roots of genuine insight grow deep in the soil of quiet observation. For where clarity resides, peace inevitably follows."