Plutocracy too long tolerated leaves democracy on the auction block, subject to the highest bidder.

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.

Great industries are never made from single companies. There is room in space for a lot of winners.

What one has not experienced, one will never understand in print.

Is detachment the answer to freedom? No, because detachment is negative - it is to be without. The answer must be positive - I must replace what I have with something better.

Be ashamed to catch yourself idle.

Globalization has made copper and other minerals more valuable, and Ghana and Kenya have recently discovered mineral resources.

When it comes to the military, we have no choice. We cannot have a depleted military.

Sometimes we have to hit bottom before we figure out how to really enjoy life.

Love spends his all, and still hath store.

So he's worth a second shot? The more apt question, my dear, is: are you?

We have to change this whole earth into a tremendous festival, and it is possible because man brings all that is needed to transform this earth into a paradise.