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

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

If there is knowledge, it lies in the fusion of the book and the street..

Think of what's stored in an 80- or a 90-year-old mind. Just marvel at it. You've got to get out this information, this knowledge, because you've got….

My epitaph? My epitaph will be, 'Curiosity did not kill this cat'..

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

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 o….

Heroes are not giant statues framed against a red sky. They are people who say: This is my community, and it is my responsibility to make it better. ….

I read somewhere that when a person takes part in community action, his health improves. Something happens to him or to her biologically. It's like a….

When I was asked: "Will shame do it?" Meaning: Will welfare people be shamed into getting respectable work? And I said that shame plays the biggest r….

I find labels "liberal" and "conservative" of little meaning. Our language has become perverted along with the thoughts of many of us..

I want, of course, peace, grace, and beauty. How do you do that? You work for it..

Work is about a search for daily meaning as well as daily bread, for recognition as well as cash, for astonishment rather than torpor; in short, for ….

The answer is to say 'No!' to authority when authority is wrong..

The trouble with censorship is that once it starts it is hard to stop. Just about every book contains something that someone objects to..

Reading a book should not be a passive exercise, but rather a raucous conversation..

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 figh….

I always love to quote Albert Einstein because nobody dares contradict him..

I call myself a radical conservative. What's that? Well, let's analyze it. Go to the dictionary. Radical: One who gets to the roots of things. And I'….

Never go to bed with someone whose problems are greater than yours..