Standing up to your government can mean standing up for your country.

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.

You can only be young once. But you can always be immature.

Poetry is an art of expressing the unknown music of our inner feelings and emotions in our known language.

Serve a person in need.Give generously indeed.

Don't look for Mrs. Right if all your character demonstrates is you are Mr. Wrong.

If you must know, I-I had never in my life kissed a young lady, and you are far too beautiful to me to want to get it wrong!

There. She had thanked Sebastian. She waited for a bolt of lightning to shoot out of the clouds and striker her dead. But nothing happened.

Neither you nor I nor Einstein nor the Supreme Court of the United States is brilliant enough to reach an intelligent decision on any problem without first getting the facts

The world is nothing but a great desire to live and a great dissatisfaction with living.

In China the underworld and officialdom have interpenetrated and become one. Criminal elements have become officialized as officials have become criminalized.

I had gone to Oxford to read music. I had done music all my life, but when I got to college I didn't want to do it anymore.