We have got to nurture the spirit of independent journalism in this country, or we'll not save capitalism from its own excesses, and we'll not save democracy from its own inertia.

Hyperbole was to Lyndon Johnson what oxygen is to life.

Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.

Freedom begins the moment you realize someone else has been writing your story and it's time you took the pen from his hand and started writing it yourself.

As a student I learned from wonderful teachers and ever since then I've thought everyone is a teacher.

Charity provides crumbs from the table; justice offers a place at the table.

America's corporate and political elites now form a regime of their own and they're privatizing democracy. All the benefits - the tax cuts, policies and rewards flow in one direction: up.

Secrecy is the freedom tyrants dream of.

In marriage, everyday you love,and everyday you forgive.It is an ongoing sacrament, love and forgiveness

I'll believe corporations are people when Texas executes one

Democracy doesn't begin at the top; it begins at the bottom, when flesh-and-blood human beings fight to rekindle what Arlo Guthrie calls 'The Patriot's Dream.

Greatness is not greater than you. You have total control over greatness. You can decide to be great and it will happen.

Justice is the first virtue of social institutions, as truth is of systems of thought.

whatever judgment we make is a subjective one we're making now, and that it could change.

The old begin to complain of the conduct of the young when they themselves are no longer able to set a bad example.

We are all in the same boat, in a stormy sea, and we owe each other a terrible loyalty.

It’s almost just a difference of mood as to whether I would describe myself one way or the other. I think I share that experience with most people.

There is no moment, ever, that does not either hold an opportunity or a lesson that God is offering.

Be judicious with your budget and buy things that are going to last.

I hope this doesn't sound pompous but I don't think of myself as famous, whatever fame I've got has come through what I've done and associations of things I've done.

You must accept that if the computer is a tool, it is the job of tool user to know what to use it for.