Most of us, like the assembly line worker, have jobs that are too small for our spirit. Jobs are not big enough for people.

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.

Whenever we make the choice to bring fear into the light with truth-seeking questions, we shall find soul-growing answers.

Without memory there can be no insight. Without love, there can be no appreciation.

Atheism is the last word of theism

If I hadn't of had music in my life, it's quite possible I'd be dead and I'd much rather be alive.

When everyone thinks alike, there isn't much thinking taking place. Get out when you can, not when you have to.

Even if the whole world turns their back on you, you will always have yourself.

My advice to you is never stop believing.

You've got to be like a butterfly and have a metamorphosis.

Those are the movies that we [with Evan Goldberg] always wanted to make. Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs, the kind of movies where violence and comedy and characters kind of work together really well.

I'm Chris Martin with down syndrome