"The greenest home is the one you don't build. If you really want to save the Earth, move in with another family and share a house that's already built. Better yet, live in the forest and eat whatever the squirrels don't want."

"There's kind of a toll you have to pay with a cat if you don't pet her for 10 minutes she'll bother you for six hours."

"Home is pretty utopian."

"Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep."

"In America there is institutional racism that we all inherit and participate in, like breathing the air in this room - and we have to become sensitive to it."

"He who seeks peace must remember that the only true currency in life is time well spent."

"To speak the truth in a season of deceit is an act of supreme bravery. In this truth lies the bedrock of all virtue."

"A mindful spirit recognizes that the echo of our deeds ripples through eternity."