I'm not an optimist. I'm hopeful.

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.

Beauty is the illumination of your soul.

It was, of course, another test. Everything in human life was a test. That was why they all looked so stressed out.

Respect for ourselves guides our morals, respect for others guides our manners.

If Dhoni plays till the end, one thing is for sure..He will make his team Win.

Maybe to become famous is to reassure yourself that whatever you're lacking inside, you've fulfilled that.

I know that the fantastic amount of profit that people want to make on anything is damaging. And that none of us seem able to resist it.

We receive reports now on a daily basis from our own people on the ground in Darfur on widespread atrocities and grave violations of human rights against the civilian population.

The story of life is quicker then the blink of an eye, the story of love is hello, goodbye.

The problems of health care can be solved if we stop giving tax cuts to those who have the most, and start making health care affordable for those working harder and harder for too little.

I would never sign on to a project that was male-bashing, because first and foremost I'm a man... what guy would sign on for that?