“I’m a very brave person. I can go to North Vietnam, I can challenge my government, but I can’t challenge the man I’m with if means I’m going to end up alone.”

The most incredible beauty and the most satisfying way of life come from affirming your own uniqueness.

My greatest asset is that I am constantly changing.

I spent a good deal of time going back over my childhood, my midlife, to try to understand who I was. We’re supposed to be complete and whole, and you can’t be whole if you’re trying to be perfect. Doing a life review helped me get over the disease to please.

To be a revolutionary you have to be a human being. You have to care about people who have no power.

The bravest soldiers aren’t unafraid, but they’re the ones who are able to harness their fear on behalf of courage.

Women are rising. And I think that’s all the violence and war – it could be the last gasp of the patriarchy, actually.

Revolution is an act of love; we are the children of revolution, born to be rebels. It runs in our blood.

Don’t give up. There are lessons to be learned even in the most horrendous pain. And you don’t know that when you’re young.

We’re still living with the old paradigm of age as an arch. That’s the old metaphor: You’re born, you peak at midlife and decline into decrepitude.

Physical fitness is a three-legged stool: strength, aerobic capacity, and flexibility.

I never was a hippie! I went to India because so many friends like Mia Farrow and The Beatles were going there to discover truth. And so I went and trekked through India by myself, but instead of discovering truth, I wanted to join the Peace Corps.

Look what scares you in the face and try to understand it. Empathy is revolutionary.

We’ve got to establish a socialistic economic structure that will limit private, profit-oriented businesses.

You can do one of two things; just shut up, which is something I don’t find easy, or learn an awful lot very fast, which is what I tried to do.

Go for the burn! Sweat!

I have a confidence about my life that comes from standing tall on my own two feet.

At the end of the day, nine times out of 10, they are going to win.

Tt continues while we’re still trying to figure out the point of it. And it ends long before we’ve worked out just what to do.

You know, you do need mentors, but in the end, you really just need to believe in yourself.

At the end of the day, I can end up just totally wacky, because I’ve made mountains out of molehills. With meditation, I can keep them as molehills.

I’m still here. My son is around me all the time. At the end of the day he still loves me and I love him, so it is what it is.

At the end of the day, it’s hard to win against the NFL. It’s a billion-dollar business, it’s hard to win against it.

What people end up watching is what the advertising end up glomming onto and promoting.

In the book, D’Artagnan doesn’t actually become an official Musketeer until quite near the end.