If you want to experiment, do something temporary.
If you want to explore things you haven't explored, having people who look just like you and think just like you is not the best way.
If you want to express yourself, you need the services of a lover or a psychiatrist; if you want to express a book, you might conceivably manage it.
If you want to feed the planet and keep the forests we have, you need to be able to grow roughly twice as much food per acre around the world. How do you do that? New technology.
If you want to feel at home, stay home.
If you want to feel connected to your own purpose, know this for certain: Your purpose will only be found in service to others, and in being connected to the something far greater than your mind body ego.
If you want to feel differently, you need to think and act differently.
If you want to feel good, be rational.
If you want to feel humor too exquisite and subtle for translation, sit invisibly among a gang of Negro workers.
If you want to feel less sexy put scotch tape on your nipples.
If you want to feel more comfortable and happy, work on making the people around you more comfortable and happy.
If you want to feel safe, healthy, and hopeful, try to act as if you did feel that way. Fake it 'till you feel it. maybe start with health -- try to walk energetically, speak energetically, do physical things.
If you want to fight a war on drugs, sit down at your own kitchen table and talk to your own children.
If you want to fight against a declining trend, you've got to have a much bigger bazooka.
If you want to fight the evil you see in finance and industry, get to work reading the corporate filings, see if there has been fraud, and where you find it, report it to the SEC or write about it or blog about it.
If you want to find Cherry-Tree Lane all you have to do is ask the Policeman at the cross-roads.
If you want to find God, hang out in the space between your thoughts.
If you want to find God, then all you need to do is love.
If you want to find a way to keep illegal immigrants, you know where they are, you give them a driver's license. It helps with -- they all get insured, it helps with traffic safety. I believe education is the key. Yeah, I was for kids of illegal immigrants, if they fulfill the same academic requirements as New Mexico kids, to be eligible for a scholarship. I believe we have to bring the 12 million undocumented workers out of the shadows, set up a standard where they speak English, if they pass background checks, pay back taxes, obey the laws, embrace American values, give them a chance, a path to citizenship, not amnesty.