Our society has gotten to the point where we might soon become less and less shocked by any kind of violence.

The high point of civilization is that you can hate me and I can hate you but we develop an etiquette that allows us to deal with each other because if we acted solely upon our impulse we'd probably go to war.

You must be willing to accept the fact that pain is a part of the process of revelation.

All of us are made up of the stories that we listen to, the ones we disagree with and the ones that we agree with.

Big business, for all its lobbying, is often put in line by investigative reporting, public scandals and multi-million-dollar judgments in court against those who put products on the market that are dangerous to their buyers.

If you're going to get in the ring and try to take the belt, you have to prepare to get hit.

Louis Armstrong, who learned to be in exquisite dress, came from the bottom, and he's not a trash can.