My mother and father took me in and provided everything for me – the love, nurturing, basic necessities – to give me the space to grow wings, so that when I went out into the world, I could fly.
We only have X amount of days and time on this planet – how am I going to spend that time? The way that I want to spend it is caring about the people that I love the most, and fighting to make the world a more livable place for everybody.
Many kids in foster homes have a lot of emotions that are hard to get out. It’s important to let them know they can make a difference in the community.
Television, the drug of the nation, breeding ignorance and feeding radiation...
I’m a news junkie who’s constantly reading newspapers and magazines. I look around and see what’s happening in the world.
The corporate media is there to push the agenda of the sponsors, and many of those sponsors are weapons manufacturers. So it stands to reason that you won’t get a diversity of opinions on television.
No life’s worth more than any other, no sister worth less than any brother.
Power to the peaceful!
I’ve always found that the poorer the places that I go, the more smiles I see, and the more happiness I see.
Whenever people go out of their way to help other people – there’s power and beauty in our diversity.
It was hard for me, as a father, to imagine going through what my birth mom went through, to raise a child inside of her for nine months, and then have to say goodbye. And so it’s hard for me to understand that pain and that process.
I feel alive when I feel ease of heart.
The times when I feel not alive is when I feel stifled, when I feel like the emotion that’s in me is not coming out. I’m too busy, too hectic. I’m serving my iPhone more than my spirit. Those are the times I feel bad.
Don’t settle for something that’s not great. Don’t feel like having a relationship that is not serving your needs is more important than having a relationship with yourself.
I could be really sad and I start to cry; I feel alive then. I could be at a concert and I throw my hands up in the air and I feel elation; I feel alive then.
Love is the action of soul satisfaction.
Johnny Cash was a rebel, not only just in the musical sense, but he was somebody who was for the people, and an advocate for labor, for workers, for prisoners, people who have been trapped by the criminal justice system.
The personal revolution is far more difficult, and is the first step in any revolution.
I drive a hybrid. It’s a Ford Escape. That’s my only car.
My goal has not ever been to change minds, my goal is to open minds.