If solace is any sort of succor to someone, that is sufficient. I believe in the faith of people, whatever faith they may have.

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.

If you are strong enough to face Fear of Failure, Fear of Rejections, and Fear of Criticism, that's the sign of Success.

The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.

...he fed his insides before they fed on him.

I grew up in church, and I have a wonderful family that always supported that.

Whiskey don't make liars it just makes fools.

Consistency can be a trap, especially if it leads to being consistently wrong rather than to stopping, admitting your mistake, and changing course.

In the midst of a burning-hot shaming, calling for patience and context and understanding and empathy can really land you in trouble.

There is nothing far-fetched about disappointment as a subject for comedy. It's something we are all too familiar with.

I've dated attractive people and I don't find a correlation between amorous enthusiasm and beauty and public figure status.

Check the records; there has never been an undisciplined person who was a champion. Regardless of the field of endeavor, you'll find this to be true.