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

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.

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 want, of course, peace, grace, and beauty. How do you do that? You work for it.

The secret ingredients to true happiness? Decisive optimism and personal responsibility.

Life and death- what paltry words, what tarnished bookends, what unjust summation for drawing breath one moment and failing to release it the next.

When your people are lying dead around you, don't come crying to me...

Freedom is ability to resist any harmful action.

Happiness grows at our firesides and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens.

There are places that are very draining. There are places where there is another dimensional crossover but to a dimension that is not powerful at all.

Tomorrow is forever, and years pass in no time at all

We're improving and taking our levels of customer satisfaction higher and higher....Our customers are happier than they were before.

Can you ever forgive me? I already have. How could you? I don't deserve it. That's what makes it love.

There is not a minute of time in all of our life but we must either be near to God or we will be undone.