If you have to lie, cheat, steal, obstruct and bully to get your point across, it must not be a point capable of surviving on its own merits.

If only Coca-Cola had had the kind of message to accompany its addictive deliciousness that Fox News has, we'd all be speaking Cokelish today.

From the moment America went full-on industrial, it seems like it's been a steady path towards people never having to be physically present in order to satisfy their needs.

A nation is not a budget, no matter how much ideologues want it to be so.

Everything sells. Like integrity. Like democracy. Like truth. Like deeds.

A product is usually created to improve people's lives; otherwise, why buy it? I'm no genius, but I am an American, and gosh-darnit, I consume, so I know what I'm talking about.

Right-wing extremism is all about patience. That is, until it makes its move, and then it is sudden and explosive.

The spectacle of insensitivity that is the gun lobby and its outspoken, out-of-their-mind apparatchiks, is the apotheosis of what the Republican Party has allowed itself to become.

I've rarely gotten a good review in my life, yet, to paraphrase Noel Coward, I am happy to console myself with the bitter palliative of commercial success.

The right-wing just loves making a big entrance.

What's hard, it seems, is living up to the words spoken by Jesus Christ, who preached naught but love and mercy and justice and humility.

Something about being rejected at Church Camp felt so much more awful than being rejected at school.

Yoga will always be transformational, even when it stops being cool. (350)

I think if I were walking someplace and I saw a corpse my brain would tell me it was a million things before I believed it was a corpse.

Men like to chase and you have to let us chase you. I know. It's insulting. It's frustrating. It's unfortunately the truth.

Yet everyone begins in the same place; how is it that most go along without difficulty but a few lose their way?

The fact that we are living does not mean we are not sick.

In terms of my career, having the gold definitely changed my life. The Olympics are different, you know? They're every four years and it's such a small group.

Knowledge is the treasure of the mind, but discretion is the key to it, without which it is useless. The practical part of wisdom is the best.

People who are always praising the past And especially the time of faith as best Ought to go and live in the Middle Ages And be burnt at the stake as witches and sages.

There's no sentence that's too short in the eyes of God.