Corporate conglomerates run without regulation do not work in the service of society, and run reckless and unchecked whenever possible.

Our goal isn't to close Wal-Mart down. It is to make it a better, more humane company toward its employees and the communities it is in.

What I always try to do is make the political personal.

People may be surprised at how hard and difficult filmmaking can be, having the creativity and the technical aspects together is very hard to do.

It appears the Kochs are among the most defensive billionaires, preferring the comfy confines of their callous and intellectually dishonest world view.

Economic research demonstrates that tax dollars spent in early childhood development provide extraordinary return on investment-16% for high quality programs

The Occupy movement has drawn attention to how too many in the 1 percent get to play by their own rules while exploiting the 99 percent.

We know that BP cuts safety corners, takes risks, and is unconcerned about anything other than their own profit.

Ideology has consequences.

It makes no sense to spend $6 billion a month to go after 100 Al Qaeda in Afghanistan.

God chose to save you for a purpose

We make so many of our own troubles, from mere mishaps to disasters, by dwelling on the possibility of them until the possible becomes inevitable.

There is machinery in the mind that is consciousness. Knowing the machine is the dawn of a new era.

If you want to change the fruits, you will first have to change the roots. If you want to change the visible, you must first change the invisible.

I don't understand German myself. I learned it at school, but forgot every word of it two years after I had left, and have felt much better ever since.

I can write with authority only about what I know well, which means that I end up using surface details of my own life in my fiction.

Adversity is simply part of earth life. From it we can grow and progress if we choose to. Yes, some trials come because of our own disobedience, but many trials are simply part of life.

Not in the history of mankind has the government ever created a job.

Don't deceive me. Never leave me.

Meditate Silently. You will be able to create a totally new life for yourself.