We hear the term independent contractors in Iraq. Independent contractors? Mercenaries!

How come you don't work fourteen hours a day? Your great-great-grandparents did. How come you only work the eight-hour day? Four guys got hanged fighting for the eight-hour day for you.

People are hungry for stories. It's part of our very being. Storytelling is a form of history, of immortality too. It goes from one generation to another. -Studs Terkel

Most of us have jobs that are too small for our spirits.

Perhaps it is this specter that most haunts working men and women: the planned obsolescence of people that is of a piece with the planned obsolescence of the things they make. Or sell.

I want people to talk to one another no matter what their difference of opinion might be.

We are living in the United States of Alzheimer's. A whole country has lost its memory. When it can't remember yesterday, a country forgets what it once wanted to be.

Hope never trickles down. It always springs up.

Ordinary people are capable of doing extraordinary things, and that's what it's all about. They must count.

I've always felt, in all my books, that there's a deep decency in the American people and a native intelligence - providing they have the facts, providing they have the information.

More and more we are into communications; and less and less into communication.

Many physicists these days sound like the Delphic oracle - with equations.

Mediate on the scriptures. It is the well spring of life.

Words can be bridges.

The bulk of the world's knowledge is an imaginary construction.

I know that you always take around because you talk so much, but I like to always know what's happening in your world.

You can never rely on a horse that is educated by fear. There will always be something that he fears more than you. But, when he trusts you, he will ask you, what to do when he is afraid.

Nothing is black and white, and there is no purity and there is no such thing has justice.

Skin white as snow, lips red as blood, and hair black as ebony.

If every component part of the nation claims the right of self-determination for itself, there is no one nation and there is no independence.

Only after Realization you are connected with reality.