For almost seventy years the life insurance industry has been a smug sacred cow feeding the public a steady line of sacred bull.

The Function of Leadership is to produce more Leaders, Not more Followers.

The essence of globalization is a subordination of human rights, of labor rights, consumer, environmental rights, democracy rights, to the imperatives of global trade and investment.

The only difference between the Republican and Democratic parties is the velocities with which their knees hit the floor when corporations knock on their door. That's the only difference.

The use of solar energy has not been opened up because the oil industry does not own the sun.

The clinical definition of "fascism" is when private concentrated economic power takes government away from the people, turns government into a guarantor, a subsidizer, a covering of corporate power.

There can be no daily democracy without daily citizenship.

We must strive to become good ancestors.

No presidential candidate should visit Las Vegas without condemning organized gambling.

If you always vote for the lesser of two evils, you will always have evil, and you will always have less.

Power concedes nothing without a demand. The struggle for justice must never be adjourned. The forces of injustice do not take vacations.

Always keep your hand and heart extended to touch someone with love and kindness.

Sticks and stones may break my bones, but I might be a vampire so I don't give a shit. I'll heal

Man is the question he asks about himself, before any question has been formulated. It is, therefore, not surprising that the basic questions were formulated very early in the history of mankind.

Go back so far there is another language go back far enough the language is no longer personal.

Women are, of course, more intelligent. Have you ever heard of a woman that would lose her head only because a man has pretty legs?

Death is sad, yes, but there are some great laughs you can find there.

Tell what is yours to tell. Let others tell what is theirs.

Unhappiness is too common to call for special measures.

As an actor, you want to keep your demons to some extent, but you also have to exorcise them so you can use them instead of them using you.

I don't feel that America has a black dude right now. I'm that dude.