If there is knowledge, it lies in the fusion of the book and the street.

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 see myself at crossroads in my life, mapless, lacking bits of knowledge - then, the Moon breaks through, lights up the path before me...

Vocal study before age 20 is likely to be injurious, though some survive it in the hands of very careful and understanding teachers.

It is not so much upon the number of exercises, as the care with which they are done, that progreses and skill depend.

I've raised three kids. I'm a lawyer. I've written books on the Constitution.

I've always been criticized, right from the beginning! Right from the very first day I was born... They said I wasn't right for the part!

Well, it's not just money. I consider myself establishment right now. I'm borderline establishment, I'm hanging on by my toenails - but I'm establishment.

You have to stop in order to change direction.

And no matter what you do or how hard you try, you can’t stop yourself from dreaming.

No one who had once learned to identify happiness with wealth ever felt that he had wealth enough.

With the backdrop of The Salvation Army's century and a half of service to the world's poor, these songs and reflections are born of meaningful engagement with a living Gospel