I'm celebrated for celebrating the uncelebrated.

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.

When you confront, you save yourself of disillusionment.

How dreadful...to be caught up in a game and have no idea of the rules.

When people ask me if I have any spare change I tell them I have it at home in my spare wallet.

We all have problems, and we must solve them together or we die alone.

Life is for the living. Don't let the fear of striking out let you from keep you from playing the game.

God is the God of the impossible, as well as the God of the possible.

She squinted up at him. "But I haven't always made good decisions." Pastor Harris smiled. "All that shows is that you're human.

How life did imitate art sometimes. And the cruder the art, the closer the imitation.

TRUST, not technology, is the issue of the decade.

When a thing is true, there is no need to use any arguments to substantiate it.