End perverse incentives that reward Wall Street speculators.

The Function of Leadership is to produce more Leaders, Not more Followers.

The essence of globalization is a subordination of human rights, of labor rights, consumer, environmental rights, democracy rights, to the imperatives of global trade and investment.

The only difference between the Republican and Democratic parties is the velocities with which their knees hit the floor when corporations knock on their door. That's the only difference.

The use of solar energy has not been opened up because the oil industry does not own the sun.

The clinical definition of "fascism" is when private concentrated economic power takes government away from the people, turns government into a guarantor, a subsidizer, a covering of corporate power.

There can be no daily democracy without daily citizenship.

We must strive to become good ancestors.

No presidential candidate should visit Las Vegas without condemning organized gambling.

If you always vote for the lesser of two evils, you will always have evil, and you will always have less.

Power concedes nothing without a demand. The struggle for justice must never be adjourned. The forces of injustice do not take vacations.

But she wasn’t around, and that’s the thing when your parents die, you feel like instead of going in to every fight with backup, you are going into every fight alone.

Write regularly, whether you feel like writing or not, and whether you think what you're writing is any good or not.

Much work is merely a way to make money; much leisure is merely a way to spend it.

No people in history have ever survived who thought they could protect their freedom by making themselves inoffensive to their enemies.

Knowledge that takes you, not beyond yourself is far worse than ignorance.

One of the worst things you can die with is potential.

I knew that I always wanted to be a filmmaker, an actor, a writer and a director, that was always my plan.

I do consider myself as being French, I suppose.

Moderation means prevention. Prevention means achieving much virtue.

Perhaps the Wilderness we fear is the pause between our own heartbeats, the silence that reminds us we live by grace.