Secrecy destroys accountability.

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.

Comedy is a necessity to get through life with the fewest scars. Humor is the best antidote to help relieve all struggles.

The books we read should be chosen with great care, that they may be, as an Egyptian king wrote over his library, 'The medicines of the soul.

We can't rewind the past, nor fast-forward the future, so today, all we can do is play, record, pause and keep moving, until something should press the stop button.

Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.

I believe that how you feel is very important to how you look - that healthy equals beautiful.

If you choose your subject selectively - intuitively - the camera can write poetry.

Your inner voice, your instinct, knows everything.

What she hadn't realized was that sometimes when your vision was that sharp and true, it could cut you. That only if you'd felt such fullness could you really understand the ache of being empty.

I prefer big Oprah. I know Oprah wants to be skinny Oprah, but her head is too gigantic to fit on a skinny body. She has to accept that, like Kirstie Alley, she was meant to be... ahm... voluptuous!

Think of your career as your ministry. Make your work an expression of love in service to mankind.