I want to praise activists through the years. I praise those of the past as well, to have them honored.

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.

Sometimes to be a good parent... You have to laugh when you want to be angry. You have to be angry when you want to laugh. And that is why good parenting is tough.

Maxim 15: Only you can prevent friendly fire.-The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries

When you look at the caliber of players in the England squad and their ability, why should we go into the tournament fearing anyone?

There's no pleasure in getting to be an old coot unless you have some fun along the way.

I think the key difference between the web and print medium is, on the web or any digital medium, you're dealing with this added element of behavior.

Dancing of the autumn leaves on the surface of a lake is a dream we see when we are awake!

I'm a tourist, a glorified tourist. I'm not doing it to have a good time or to lie in the sun.

Put your faith in what you most believe in.

Well, we're all a little hostile every now and then, some of us are able to sublimate, others of us can't adjust. You know how it is.

I'm a fashion designer and people think, what do I know?