Hope is the most important four-letter word in the language.
Change the story and you change perception; change perception and you change the world.
We all have the extraordinary coded within us, waiting to be released.
Now is the time when we must renew ourselves and live as if we and all of life is sacred, and as if everything we do makes a difference.
I often wonder if you wrote your memoir today, if your life story would be lived on the edge of possibility, if you held wonder in one hand and courage in the other and truly believed that anything was possible.
You are not a passive observer in the cosmos. The entire universe is expressing itself through you at this very moment.
If you keep telling the same sad small story. You will keep living the same sad small life.
If a strong government finds that it can, with impunity, destroy a weak people, then the hour has struck for that weak people to appeal to the League of Nations to give its judgment in all freedom. God and history will remember your judgment.
I wish I gardened. I don't have a space for a garden. I'm in an apartment in New York but I do lots of stuff. I read and write and hang out with people. I go see movies.
I have to say I'm all for public flogging. One type of criminal that a public humiliation might work particularly well with are the juvenile delinquents, a lot of whom consider it a badge of honor to be sent to juvenile detention. And it might not be such a cool thing in the 'hood to be flogged publicly.
No more slave States and no more slave territory.