I'd want the human voice expressing grievances, or delight, or whatever it might be. But something real

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.

People ask – how can I enjoy life when I have problems? You may have problems, but you can still enjoy life and be Happy.

Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.

That’s the problem with the world, ” he said. “You save it today, and tomorrow it’s gone and gotten itself into trouble all over again. It’s like a Kardashian.

I have devoted much time and energy to helping medical physics in developing countries.

I was always superthin, too skinny, actually. I felt like someone could break me in half. I realize now that being a bit more curvy and toned is so much more beautiful.

I'd love to do a live record, I'd love to do an acoustic record, I'm already thinking about what I may want to do with the next studio record.

Pride and Prejudice' - perhaps more than any other Jane Austen book - is engrained in our literary consciousness.

I want to write music that's going to appeal to everyone.

If the Lord calls you, He will equip you for the task He wants you to fulfill

Go to the people and live among them in order to know them and learn from them.