So now is the time, more than ever, for those who truly value all the principles of democracy, especially including dissent, to be the most forceful in speaking up, standing up and speaking out.

The middle of the road is for yellow lines and dead armadillos.

The opposite for courage is not cowardice, it is conformity. Even a dead fish can go with the flow.

The issue isn't just jobs. Even slaves had jobs. The issue is wages.

Populism is not a style, it's a people's rebellion against the iron grip that big corporations have on our country - including our economy, government, media, and environment.

The corporations don't have to lobby the government anymore. They are the government.

Some people say we need a third party. I wish we had a second one.

Even a dead fish can go with the flow.

Do something. If it doesn't work, do something else. No idea is too crazy.

Like NASCAR race drivers or PGA golfers, why not require each of the [US presidential] candidates to cover their clothing, briefcases and staff with the logo patches of their corporate sponsors?

The only difference between a pigeon and the American farmer today is that a pigeon can still make a deposit on a John Deere.

Tell me what you eat and I will tell you who you are.

Planting flowers in a desert is more productive than imparting wisdom to fools.

To suffer together is to suffer with beauty,

The Government's supposed to be there for people when nobody else is, right? But it never works like that.

There are two types of risk in life: the danger of trying and the danger of not trying.

The ductless glands secrete among other things our moods, our aspirations, our philosophy of life.

Every teenager feels a wanting, a desire for something more, to be heard, to be seen.

Every life is complicated, every mind a kingdom of unmapped mysteries.

I'd be more frightened by not using whatever abilities I'd been given. I'd be more frightened by procrastination and laziness.

What a glorious morning this is!