It's the people who are doing the nonviolent organizing at the grassroots that make me think there's still hope.

Hyperbole was to Lyndon Johnson what oxygen is to life.

Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.

Freedom begins the moment you realize someone else has been writing your story and it's time you took the pen from his hand and started writing it yourself.

As a student I learned from wonderful teachers and ever since then I've thought everyone is a teacher.

Charity provides crumbs from the table; justice offers a place at the table.

America's corporate and political elites now form a regime of their own and they're privatizing democracy. All the benefits - the tax cuts, policies and rewards flow in one direction: up.

Secrecy is the freedom tyrants dream of.

In marriage, everyday you love,and everyday you forgive.It is an ongoing sacrament, love and forgiveness

I'll believe corporations are people when Texas executes one

Democracy doesn't begin at the top; it begins at the bottom, when flesh-and-blood human beings fight to rekindle what Arlo Guthrie calls 'The Patriot's Dream.

Obey every rule that will enhance your trust in God for greater work! Break every law that might cause a tear in your relationship with Him against your destiny!

Anytime the president visits Nebraska its good for Nebraska.

Gone! And you and I quite crestfallen. It’s always like that, you can’t keep him; it’s not as if he were a tame lion.

When we feed our faith, we starve our doubts.

Art is contemplation of the world in a state of grace and imaginatively reflecting that subjective understanding.

Capital' is not what capital is called, it is what its name is called.

Find your way with the certain and gentle light of forgiveness.

I committed to doing everything I could to put compassion on the scientific map.

Freedom is the recognition of contingency.

Who shrinks from knowledge of his calamities but aggravates his fear; troubles half seen, shall torture all the more.