“We are living in an era in which billions of people are grappling to promote communication, tolerance, and understanding over the more destructive forces of war”

It takes a lot of beautiful love, uncommon sincerity, and spitfire courage to do that.

When we vote we participate in the construction of a context.

She [Whitney Houston] inherited gifts for skillfully interpreting lyrics and endowing them with new depth and jeweled nuance.

Valentines Day itself, like most holidays in the modern era, has been heavily influenced by commercialism that focuses on the appeal of romantic fantasies.

What more civilized way for people to alleviate the same than by giving themselves to one another as brothers and sisters in deed as well as in word?

You are the hybrids of golden worlds and ages splendidly conceived.

The words ‘I Love You’ kill, and resurrect millions, in less than a second.

A world without poetry and art would be too much like one without birds or flowers: bearable but a lot less enjoyable.

The literary artist lends verbal depth to the visual. The visual artist provides visible articulation for the literary.

While it is unlikely that poetry or art shall eliminate the reality of war in the twenty-first century, it is thrilling to know there remain individuals, and even entire communities,

What a lover’s heart knows let no man’s brain dispute.

Before the thunderous clamor of political debate or war set loose in the world, love insisted on its promise for the possibility of human unity

Where she offers the kind of insights into the spiritual aspects of Michael Jackson’s creative artistry that mainstream media mostly ignores.

President Obama appears to me to have elevated and implemented the artist-activist concept to the role of empowered servant-leader.

The Emancipation Proclamation…can remind us in 2013 of all the mistakes we never want to commit again but it can also motivate us to fulfill to an ever greater degree

The reality of a serious writer is a reality of many voices, some of them belonging to the writer, some of them belonging to the world of readers at large.

Why I’ve advocated a proportional tax system. You make $10 billion, you pay a billion. You make $10, you pay one. And everybody gets treated the same way. And you get rid of the deductions, you get rid of all the loopholes.

When actually what’s going to happen is we’re going to radically expand our lives billions and billions of times in every way, in every dimension and so I’m looking forward to things I can’t even imagine yet.

No one should have a key that turns a billion locks. It shouldn’t exist.

What civilization is, is 6 billion people trying to make themselves happy by standing on each other’s shoulders and kicking each other’s teeth in. It’s not a pleasant situation.

Even if you’re Bill Gates, you’ve got problems. I’m sure he would probably easily give a few billion dollars to get rid of all the problems that he has.

I’ve advocated a proportional tax system. You make $10 billion, you pay a billion. You make $10, you pay one. And everybody gets treated the same way.

When I arrived on the planet, there were only two billion. Wildlife was more abundant, we were less so; now the situation is reversed.

Billions of dollars are appropriated at the twinkling of an eye. Nothing little counts.