I always get very moved when I see that video, the work we're doing now with kids.

With the filmmaker David Lynch and I started the David Lynch Foundation almost 12 years ago.

And the whole purpose was to take the benefits of meditation to,

in many regards, people who may need it the most, who would have least access to it.

And in the last 12 years, we provided scholarships now for half a million inner city school kids to meditate.

And we're also working with veterans and their families who suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder

and also women and children who are victims of domestic violence

and sexual abuse.

And for me, it is a deeply, deeply, deeply satisfying experience.

I briefly grew up in a very political family in the

1950s and 1960s in the San Francisco Bay Area. And when I say my family was political, I mean

that my family was so political that I knew I was a Democrat before I knew I was Jewish.

And I grew up, I worked for Bobby Kennedy's presidential campaign in California.

I went to the University of California at Berkeley in 1968. There you can put me in that.

I wasn't a druggy, I wasn't a hippie, I wasn't a radical.

I went to Berkeley with the idea of going to law school

and I wanted to be a U.S. senator like Bobby Kennedy.

I wanted to change the world.

And when I was there, I had army tanks parked outside my door.

For you people, that was because of the Vietnam War, riots.

I was going to school full-time, working full-time, pretty much stressed out of my mind.

And the field of politics, not surprisingly, at that time lost its fascination for me as a tool for social change.

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