What we need is what the ancient Israelites called hochma - the science of the heart...the capacity to see, to feel, and then to act as if the future depended on you. Believe me, 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.

You can blow out a candle, but you cannot blow out a star.

Be grateful for every sacred breath.

If you stay determined, the obstacles cannot stop your progress. You will triumph over every mountain.

God is able to give you the power to endure that which cannot be changed... Why be anxious? Come what may, God is able.

Chess is a game of bad moves.

Does Big Brother exist?" "Of course he exists. The Party exists. Big Brother is the embodiment of the Party." "Does he exist in the same way as I exist?" "You do not exist.

God, I'm just a fat bald guy, 60 years old, singing the blues, you know?

I believe becoming healthy and working out saved my life by giving me the confidence and self worth to achieve my goals.

Fame won't make you feel any better about yourself.

He only who gave life has a power over it.