I want, of course, peace, grace, and beauty. How do you do that? You work for it.

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.

I had also read somewhere that if a man didn't truly believe or understand what he was espousing, somehow he could do a more convincing job

I'm tired of malicious articles slandering me.

No matter what his position or experience in life, there is in everyone more latent than developed ability; far more unused than used power.

What is here a right towards men, is a duty towards the Creator.

The horse is flesh and blood on a noble scale

All poetry comes from repetition.

America is a model of force and freedom and moderation - with all the coarseness and rudeness of its people.

People are People still gets played to death on '80s stations. It was our first big break in America. It's not exactly my favorite song.

I think you can challenge people, but you don't want to break people down. But you've got to sometimes just pull them aside and say, you know, you're OK but you could be better.

I like being in love. I want to be in love, but at this stage of my life, my career is, by far, the most important thing to me. It's my passion.