What's right and good doesn't come naturally. You have to stand up and fight for it - as if the cause depends on you, because it does.

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.

All wisdom contracts then expands, contracts then expands. That is how consciousness evolves.

You are educated when you learn to coexist with othersAnd as a result you enhance the whole existence.

Things are tough all over, cupcake, an' it rains on the just an' the unjust alike...except in California.

The patient and active virtues of a soldier are insensibly nursed in the habits and discipline of a pastoral life.

People may be said to resemble not the bricks of which a house is built, but the pieces of a picture puzzle, each differing in shape, but matching the rest, and thus bringing out the picture.

I am comfortable giving people direction. If something is not good enough, my job is to find a way to help them learn from their mistake, and understand that next time I expect better.

I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought; and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.

My greatest point is my persistence... However down I am, I fight until the last ball.

Good communication is the bridge between confusion and clarity.

Justice, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder.