Democracy only works when we claim it as our own.

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.

Spiritual yearning is the homesickness of the soul.

The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure.

I get stage fright and gremlins in my head saying: 'You're going to forget your lines'.

Kindred’s tale is a romantic, mature, and lyrical collage of heaven, hell, and a magical royal legend. The combination is divinely—and demonically—inspired.

I didn't like men because they were so physically competitive. Men are always making a pecking order. "I can beat you up and you can beat him up ..."

Being from Texas, I didn't know anything about gangsters and people like that, I had no fear of people.

I never like to do parodies. I never do. It's just not my style of comedy.

Ive always been into bodybuilding and keeping in shape, and I just challenge myself to see if I can continue to make improvements.

You and I are going to change the world.

Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine for the soul.