The quality of democracy and the quality of journalism are deeply entwined.

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.

truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.

Our anger could become a force of deliverance.

I have no God to hold me up. And I believe that when they shatter the body they shatter everything, and I knew that all of us—Christians, Muslims, atheists—lived in this fear of this truth.

Man is not meant to live alone.

Because if time can be fluid, then maybe something that is just one day can go on indefinitely

It was God who dictated what man should believe and do, leaving man the freedom to accept or scoff, to obey or disregard.

Stop waiting for a producer. Produce yourself.

I don't like publicity, being in the limelight.

As we look deeply within, we understand our perfect balance. There is no fear of the cycle of birth, life and death. For when you stand in the present moment, you are timeless.

I had a terrible job letting me do anything that wasn't comedy.