All empires eventually destroy themselves. That's the record of history.

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.

I believe the declaration that ‘all men are created equal’ is the great fundamental principle upon which our free institutions rest.

I'm the son of an everyman. My father is a teacher. He teaches physics at a boys' school in Sydney.

Most people have no idea how to politely answer a phone. The English do, and it's been their only major business advantage for the past two centuries.

Sometimes when you're starting out with acting, you have to take what you can get to get experience and meet people.

Obvious is the most dangerous word in mathematics.

There's no way that I know of to avoid pain absolutely, but suffering is the interpretation we choose to place on the pain we encounter.

Folklore is the perfect second skin. From under its hide, we can see all the shimmering, shadowy uncertainties of the world.

Everyone who reads me is someone I'd like to hang out with.

I started thinking about [ what book is going to go next] when I was working on As Easy as Falling Off the Face of the Earth.

You know, maybe that's all anybody wants, is to be useful. And have somebody else notice it.