When I was growing up, I never heard anyone pray, "Give me this day my daily bread." It was always, "Give us this day our daily bread." That stuck. We're all in this together.

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.

It was not well to drive men into final corners

Our aversion to lying is commonly a secret ambition to make what we say considerable, and have every word received with a religious respect.

We always say, one day we will laugh at this. I always try to make sure that this one day is today.

I was found on Youtube. I think I was detrimental to my own career.

You might as well take the sun out of the sky as friendship from life: for the immortal gods have given us nothing better or more delightful.

High School Musical is definitely the best thing that's happened to my career and I walked away with great friends from it.

As soon as a baby enters the world, the baby is immediately introduced to pain. It is somewhat symbolic that life begins with a cry.

I don't like people waiting on me. I feel it is an unnecessary expense.

Many people I know who are doing truly helpful and healing ministry find their primary support from a couple of enlightened friends, and only secondarily, if at all, from the larger organizations.

There's no longer a monolithic evil empire somewhere, spreading a different philosophy of life. That doesn't exist.