Constitutional democracy, you see, is no romantic notion. It's our defense against ourselves, the one foe who might defeat us.

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.

People need to learn to live with more risk.

I know I'm late, but I've finally joined Facebook!

Let your confidence reflect your contentedness.

That which had pleased me once, troubled by spirit.

How come pleasure never makes it on to... a dutiful list of do's and don'ts? Doesn't joy also get soft and flabby if you neglect to exercise it?

I don't know how Hollywood sees me.

The reader deserves an honest opinion. If he doesn't deserve it, give it to him anyhow.

There's a mystery there, a clue, a nut, a bolt, and if I put it together, I find me.

Water flows from high in the mountains Water runs deep in the Earth Miraculously, water comes to us, And sustains all life.

I came from a house full of books, so I took reading for granted. I was an outdoorsy little kid, too, so I got the best of both worlds by taking books up trees and reading there.