Bill Moyers

Our very lives depend on the ethics of strangers, and most of us are always strangers to other people.

Today, the practice of medicine in an urban, technological society rarely provides either the time or the environment to encourage a doctor-patient relationship that promotes healing.

At a time when the cost of health care is skyrocketing, the potential economic impact of mind/body medicine is considerable.

There are honest journalists like there are honest politicians - they stay bought.

We don't care really about children as a society and television reflects that indifference to children as human beings.

Someone asked why I invited Jon Stewart to be the first guest on the 'Journal''s premiere in 2007. 'Because Mark Twain isn't available,' I answered. I was serious.

We see more and more of our Presidents and know less and less about what they do.

The printed page conveys information and commitment, and requires active involvement. Television conveys emotion and experience, and it's very limited in what it can do logically. It's an existential experience - there and then gone.

Hyperbole was to Lyndon Johnson what oxygen is to life.

Every once in a while, a book so possesses me that I happily give up a couple of consecutive nights of sleep - as well as the evening news broadcasts and latenight talk shows - to finish it. That's what happened when I opened the novel 'Shadow Tag' by Louise Erdrich.

For the first time in our history, ideology and theology hold a monopoly of power in Washington.

This is the first time in my 32 years in public broadcasting that PBS has ordered up programs for ideological instead of journalistic reasons.

Democracy belongs to those who exercise it.

America's corporate and political elites now form a regime of their own and they're privatizing democracy. All the benefits - the tax cuts, policies and rewards flow in one direction: up.

Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.

As a student I learned from wonderful teachers and ever since then I've thought everyone is a teacher.

I work for him despite his faults and he lets me work for him despite my deficiencies.

War, except in self-defense, is a failure of moral imagination.

When I learn something new - and it happens every day - I feel a little more at home in this universe, a little more comfortable in the nest.

Ideas are great arrows, but there has to be a bow. And politics is the bow of idealism.

When my brother died in 1966, my father began a grieving process that lasted almost twenty-five years. For all that time, he suffered from chronic, debilitating headaches. I took him to some of the country's major medical facilities, but no one could cure him of his pain.

Secrecy is the freedom tyrants dream of.

Democracy may not prove in the long run to be as efficient as other forms of government, but it has one saving grace: it allows us to know and say that it isn't.

What's right and good doesn't come naturally. You have to stand up and fight for it - as if the cause depends on you, because it does.

I own and operate a ferocious ego.