When I learn something new - and it happens every day - I feel a little more at home in this universe, a little more comfortable in the nest.

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 don’t need those memories, Kai. We can make new ones. We… can start over. Just like we’ve met only yesterday.

A budget tells us what we can't afford, but it doesn't keep us from buying it.

As covetousness is the root of all evil, so poverty is the worst of all snares.

Truth is singular. Its 'versions' are mistruths.

The truly free person in society is a disciplined person.

The happiness of man, as well as his dignity, consists in virtue.

The only thing in the world worse than being Oscar Wilde is not being Oscar Wilde.

A problem not so well understood is the growing presence of plastics in the marine food chain. If we don't make big changes fast, the fish we do save may no longer be safe to eat.

How Religion Works: If I obey, then God will love and accept me. The Gospel: I'm loved and accepted, therefore I wish to obey.

History reports that the men who can manage men manage the men who can manage only things, and the men who can manage money manage all.