Although our interests as citizens vary, each one is an artery to the heart that pumps life through the body politic, and each is important to the health of democracy.

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.

I am wealth, I am abundance, I am Cosmic Ordering.

You are most beautiful when your eyes are glowing with kindness and joy.

We often confuse what we wish for with what is.

He loves to eat - he puts mayonnaise on an aspirin.

If you don't want anyone to know it don't do it.

Every year it's been people saying I can't do this or I can't do that. Y'all will see something different, I can tell you that.

Writing as a woman presents enormous problems but I have attempted it several times and haven't had many complaints.

To most of us the future seems unsure. But then it always has been; and we who have seen great changes must have great hopes.

I want to enjoy life and I can't if I'm not eating and miserable...

Anybody can cut prices, but it takes brains to produce a better article.