News is what people want to keep hidden and everything else is publicity.

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.

Movement is life!

The masks. that men have as faces, the outward shells they hold up for others to see while their minds shift in hidden directions. Discard 2

The world is your lobster!

I never called my work an 'art'. It's part of show business, the business of building entertainment.

You have to play the logic of a character.

Use soft words in hard arguments.

I liked getting the Grammy more than not getting it.

Kids play pretend. I think that kids can be the best actors.

Christlikeness is your eventual destination, but your journey will last a lifetime.

I grew up in a Ukrainian Catholic-turned-Christian household, and that is my family's faith.