Although I was brought up in a culturally and religious conservative culture, as a Baptist I was taught that no one has the right to subpoena your conscience.

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.

D'you think he would have thought ahead like that?" said Henry. "Assuredly, " said Will. "The man's a strategist." He tapped his temple. "Like me.

When all men give to all others all the rights they claim for themselves, this world will be civilized.

'Til 1983, I wrote primarily for other psychologists and expected that they would be the principal audience for my book.

There's nothing trite about being consoled in a world that does everything in its power to deliver sorrow.

Anna spoke not only naturally and intelligently, but intelligently and casually, without attaching any value to her own thoughts, yet giving great value to the thoughts of the one she was talking to.

I don't understand it any more than you do, but one thing I've learned is that you don't have to understand things for them to be.

Manifestly, dying is nothing to a really great and brave man.

The most important stage of any enterprise is the beginning.

I would like travelers, especially American travelers, to travel in a way that broadens their perspective.

In my community, women are as important as males, and they are playing an equal role in the society.