Charity is commendable; everyone should be charitable. But justice aims to create a social order in which, if individuals choose not to be charitable, people still don't go hungry, unschooled or sick without care. Charity depends on the vicissitudes of whim and personal wealth; justice depends on commitment instead of circumstance.

In marriage, everyday you love,and everyday you forgive.It is an ongoing sacrament, love and forgiveness

There's 1,000 ways into addiction 1,000 ways out.

I've lived long enough to see the triumph of zealots and absolutists, to watch money swallow politics, to witness the rise of the corporate state. See the party of working and poor people become a sycophant of crony capitalism. Watch the union of church and state become fashionable again. Witness the coupling of news and entertainment. See everyday people cast overboard as the pirates and predators of Wall Street seized the ship of state. I didn't drift; I moved left just by standing still.

I really believe that coincidence is God's way of remaining anonymous.

When a library is open, no matter its size or shape, democracy is open, too.

The consensual seduction of the mainstream media by and with the government is one of the most dangerous toxins at work in America today.