Along with individual responsibility goes some societal responsibility to enable young people and their parents to do what they need to do. Otherwise, what is a society?

A smaller government reflecting the needs of the middle class and poor is superior to a big government reflecting the needs of the privileged and powerful.

It turns out that what money buys has rapidly diminishing emotional returns ... As long as we're not destitute, happiness depends less on getting what we want than appreciating what we already have.

Powerlessness can be a self-fulfilling prophesy. There is much that is wrong with America. But it will only be made right only if we force change to occur.

Indentured servitude is banned, but what about students seeking to sell shares of their future earnings in exchange for money up front to pay for their college tuitions?

I am in everything that stands for justice and the natural rights of free men everywhere.I am American Amaranth

I find myself smiling, finally. I guess I do remember how to do it. You just turn the corners of your mouth up.

Vocabulary for aggravation is large. Vocabulary for transcendence is elusive.

But tears don't bring back the dead. I learned that.

Disease cannot live in a body that's in a healthy emotional state.

Standing up for America, investing in America, will pay off.

Painters love paint itself: so much that they spend years trying to get paint to behave the way they want it to.

If you plan to excel in big things, you have to develop the habit in the small ones.

I could define poetry this way: it is that which is lost out of both prose and verse in translation.

One of the paradoxes of globalization is that, in the developing world, we've seen massive reductions in property.