I hope for peace and sanity - it's the same thing.

How come you don't work fourteen hours a day? Your great-great-grandparents did. How come you only work the eight-hour day? Four guys got hanged fighting for the eight-hour day for you.

People are hungry for stories. It's part of our very being. Storytelling is a form of history, of immortality too. It goes from one generation to another. -Studs Terkel

Most of us have jobs that are too small for our spirits.

Perhaps it is this specter that most haunts working men and women: the planned obsolescence of people that is of a piece with the planned obsolescence of the things they make. Or sell.

I want people to talk to one another no matter what their difference of opinion might be.

We are living in the United States of Alzheimer's. A whole country has lost its memory. When it can't remember yesterday, a country forgets what it once wanted to be.

Hope never trickles down. It always springs up.

Ordinary people are capable of doing extraordinary things, and that's what it's all about. They must count.

I've always felt, in all my books, that there's a deep decency in the American people and a native intelligence - providing they have the facts, providing they have the information.

More and more we are into communications; and less and less into communication.

We can find a new hope every new day and every New Year.

We cannot bring peace in our city, when there is no peace in our homes.

I'm more financially successful, but it just means the shopping blunders I make are bigger now.

Mind your till, and till your mind.

Earnestness is good; it means business. But fanaticism overdoes, and is consequently reactionary.

Do you realize that we're meteorites; almost as soon as we're born, we have to disappear?

Since in reality there is nothing to which growth is relative save more growth, there is nothing to which education is subordinate save more education.‎

I'm a total ignoramus about the technical aspects but I have to say that it's awfully purty now.

Donald Trump is my leader. And if he decides to drop the swamp and the alligator, I will drop the swamp and the alligator.

Make a list of your friends and determine who is the most positive thinker among them and deliberately cultivate his society.