1. “The quality of democracy and the quality of journalism are deeply entwined.”
2. “Creativity is piercing the mundane to find marvelous.”
3. “When ideology and theology couple, their offspring are not always bad but they are always blind.”
4. “In marriage, everyday you love, and everyday you forgive. It is an ongoing sacrament, love and forgiveness.”
5. “Freedom begins the moment you realize someone else has been writing your story and it’s time you took the pen from his hand and started writing it yourself.”
6. “Charity provides crumbs from the table; justice offers a place at the table.”
7. “Secrecy is the freedom tyrants dream of.”
8. “Democracy belongs to those who exercise it.”
9. “You can’t have a people’s democracy as long as corporations are considered people.”
10. “Our children are being raised by appliances.”
11. “Our very lives depend on the ethics of strangers and most of us are always strangers to other people.”
12. “War, except in self-defense, is a failure of moral imagination.”
13. “Ideas are great arrows, but there has to be a bow.”
14. “Professionals give advice; pilgrims share wisdom.”
15. “News is what people want to keep hidden and everything else is publicity.”
