People are hungry for stories. It's part of our very being.

I hope for peace and sanity - it's the same thing.

I presumably lost $150,000 in the depression of 1937—on my one stock investment—because I did everything Lehman Brothers told me. I said, well, this is a fool’s procedure . . . buying stock in other people’s businesses.

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

Taking life seriously requires taking death seriously.

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 fighting for the eight-hour day for you.

Marvin Miller, I suspect, is the most effective union organizer since John L. Lewis.