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.
Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
Our very lives depend on the ethics of strangers, and most of us are always strangers to other people.
I own and operate a ferocious ego.
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.
War, except in self-defense, is a failure of moral imagination.
Ideas are great arrows, but there has to be a bow. And politics is the bow of idealism.
This is the first time in my 32 years in public broadcasting that PBS has ordered up programs for ideological instead of journalistic reasons.
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.
For the first time in our history, ideology and theology hold a monopoly of power in Washington.
Secrecy is the freedom tyrants dream of.
Democracy may not prove in the long run to be as efficient as other forms of government, but it has one saving grace: it allows us to know and say that it isn't.
Hyperbole was to Lyndon Johnson what oxygen is to life.
At a time when the cost of health care is skyrocketing, the potential economic impact of mind/body medicine is considerable.
Every once in a while, a book so possesses me that I happily give up a couple of consecutive nights of sleep - as well as the evening news broadcasts and latenight talk shows - to finish it. That's what happened when I opened the novel 'Shadow Tag' by Louise Erdrich.
Someone asked why I invited Jon Stewart to be the first guest on the 'Journal''s premiere in 2007. 'Because Mark Twain isn't available,' I answered. I was serious.
As a student I learned from wonderful teachers and ever since then I've thought everyone is a teacher.
Democracy belongs to those who exercise it.
I work for him despite his faults and he lets me work for him despite my deficiencies.
The printed page conveys information and commitment, and requires active involvement. Television conveys emotion and experience, and it's very limited in what it can do logically. It's an existential experience - there and then gone.
