The rich today are richer, there are more of them, they have round-the-clock propaganda factories in Rupert Murdoch's empire and rightwing talk radio, and corporate media have their back.

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.

Time, as it grows old, teaches all things.

It's not that the Irish are cynical. It's rather that they have a wonderful lack of respect for everything and everybody.

Would I like to play the lead? You bet. Absolutely. But I get to have fun and I don't have to shave when I go to work.

I like Bach. I like Randy Newman.

I don't walk around big headed. I'm not a superstar.

We are staying in basic accommodation but it doesn't matter to me, it's all about the experience.

People exaggerate the value of things they haven't got everybody worships truth and unselfishness because they have no experience with them

Ordinary readers, forgive my paradoxes: one must make them when one reflects; and whatever you may say, I prefer being a man with paradoxes than a man with prejudices.

Black employers are just as negative as the white employers concerning inner-city workers.

I was in my yard and thought that the tree was a living being. We take trees for granted. We don't believe they are as much alive as we are.