The fault line in American history is now a dividing line in the election and it's changing the conversation.

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.

To wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect

Balance is the key to a long and happy life.

Thought leadership is when a leader's thoughts are being used by leaders to lead others.

Thus we never see the true state of our condition till it is illustrated to us by its contraries, nor know how to value what we enjoy, but by the want of it.

I don't plan an awful lot in life just as I don't plan an awful lot in my fiction.

So many people preach that they love fashion, but really it's what I live for!

You have only 30 seconds with a new person. I will give you a hug so you know I’m real, and then you’re real too.

Death is very likely the single best invention of life.

It gets cold in the desert at night, particularly up in the mountains; the stars hammer on the rock and strike frost.

What I'm doing ain't about hating White people. It's about loving us.