So how are things going along? Pretty good. Going to be good tomorrow? Hope so.

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.

Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality.

Meditate only on that which God has laid in your spirit, so that you will not live on the past

There's not much you need to know about the world. Except how to use a sword and trust very few.

They talked in the shorthand of old friends and shared memories.

Truths may clash without contradicting each other.

Victory is for them, not for us. We have not made profit out of our country's misfortune. Victory does not bring us luck.

I can do a really high-pitched cartoon voice. Everybody always say they like that.

If it reenters its base, I have a rule to cut at least 50 percent of the position.

I grew up in an era where an orchestra was like a treasure chest.

Now sometimes I don't know if I feel well. Because I've been in my body for years.