There are two kinds of politics in the world: the politics of love and the politics of fear.

If we Americans are split into two meaningful camps, it is not conservative versus liberal. The two camps are the politically awake and the hypnotized.

Democracy is not something we have. It's something we do.

Small towns make up for their lack of people by having everyone be more interesting.

Think of the millions of young men who died fighting for democracy. We spit on their graves when we let democracy slip away into the sewer of illegal money.

I'm not against the corporations. They are our wealth. But they are getting too greedy. I don't want to do away with corporations. I want them to make our cars, however, not our laws.

So why do we call her crazy for piling her trailer full of more cats than she could take care of but applaud when somebody accumulates more money than they can spend? They're both hoarders.

The big “WHEN” about change is not just a particular moment, but a thought-out planning with clear defined timelines.

The bungalow had more to do with how Americans live today than any other building that has gone remotely by the name of architecture in our history.

Girls should go on thinking that there is a world out there and that it is theirs for the taking.

Change is one thing. Acceptance is another.

Nothing in the world is so incontinent as a man's accursed appetite.

Treat with utmost respect your power of forming opinions, for this power alone guards you against making assumptions that are contrary to nature and judgments that overthrow the rule of reason.

When I write, I tend to twist my hair. Something for my small mind to do, I guess.

Things are not as bad as it seems. The situations that cause us sorrow are the same ones that introduce us to the strength, power and wisdom that we truly are.

there is nothing so uncertain and slippery as fact.