But once you become active in something, something happens to you. You get excited and suddenly you realize you count.

How come you don't work fourteen hours a day? Your great-great-grandparents did. How come you only work the eight-hour day? Four guys got hanged fighting for the eight-hour day for you.

People are hungry for stories. It's part of our very being. Storytelling is a form of history, of immortality too. It goes from one generation to another. -Studs Terkel

Most of us have jobs that are too small for our spirits.

Perhaps it is this specter that most haunts working men and women: the planned obsolescence of people that is of a piece with the planned obsolescence of the things they make. Or sell.

I want people to talk to one another no matter what their difference of opinion might be.

We are living in the United States of Alzheimer's. A whole country has lost its memory. When it can't remember yesterday, a country forgets what it once wanted to be.

Hope never trickles down. It always springs up.

Ordinary people are capable of doing extraordinary things, and that's what it's all about. They must count.

I've always felt, in all my books, that there's a deep decency in the American people and a native intelligence - providing they have the facts, providing they have the information.

More and more we are into communications; and less and less into communication.

None fills the void like the company of a true friend.

The purpose of setting communication principles is to build an effective digital workplace where collaboration and sharing are the norms.

Michael Arndt, that guy - you're just supposed to say nice things about other writers, but I worship Michael Arndt.

To know how scientists engage in visual imagery is to understand how they think creatively.

To be selfish is to sacrifice the nobler for the meaner ends, and to be sordidly content.

The moon is such a planet, I can’t even stand it. What else is it if it’s not a planet?

The thing about the 600 words, I mean some day, you can do a very, very, very hard day's work and not write a word, just revising, or you would scribble a few words.

I'm going to do my thing and if you react a certain way - with pity or with anger - that's up to you.

I will use all my strength to bring about a just society to a nation living in a tough world.

Time is not kind to everything.