There are honest journalists like there are honest politicians - they stay bought.

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.

I know it when I see itJacobellis v. Ohio, 378 U.S. 184 (1964), concurring op.

My buildings will be my legacy... they will speak for me long after I'm gone.

Know your capacities and continually improve upon them.

I project love, music and love, and I pray for peace. A good song cuts straight to the heart; sometimes it doesn't need to be too many lines - of course, I do love a good story.

I quit drinking, so I can think clear. When you have chop trouble, drinking doesn't help the healing process.

We're going to do a challenge. I'm going to try and download every movie ever made and you are going to try to sign up for Obamacare - and we'll see which happens first.

I'm always revving the engine. In this industry, there are so many twists and turns. You never have it made.

You find peace by coming to terms with what you don't know.

Every germ of goodness will at last struggle into bloom and fruitage...true success follows every right step.

There is another element that is a part of human happiness — and that is that unless we think of others and do something for them we miss the greatest sources of happiness.