Profit and morality are a hard combination to beat.

When people generally are aware of a problem, it can be said to have entered the public consciousness. When people get on their hind legs and holler, the problem has not only entered the public consciousness -- it has also become a part of the public conscience. At that point, things in our democracy begin to hum.

The measure of a civilization is how it treats those at the dawn of life, the margins of life and the twilight of life.

There is a lot of difference between failure and defeat. Failure is when you are defeated and neither learn nor contribute anything.

The difference between hearsay and prophecy is often one of sequence. Hearsay often turns out to have been prophecy.

Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man.

Never give up on anybody.