As anyone knows who has ever had to set up a military encampment or build a village from the ground up, occupations pose staggering logistical problems.

Hope is essential to any political struggle for radical change when the overall social climate promotes disillusionment and despair.

For anyone worn down, The Impossible Will Take a Little While is a bracing double cappuccino.

Considering the absence of legal coercion, the surprising thing is that men have for so long, and, on the whole, so reliably, adhered to what we might call the breadwinner ethic.

Exercise is the yuppie version of bulimia.

No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots.

The 'working poor,' as they are approvingly termed, are in fact the major philanthropists of our society.

There is a vast difference between positive thinking and existential courage.

No one should be incarcerated for debt or squeezed for money they have no chance of getting their hands on.

Poverty is not a character failing or a lack of motivation. Poverty is a shortage of money.

Personally, I can't see why it would be any less romantic to find a husband in a nice four-color catalogue than in the average downtown bar at happy hour.

First kisses were about discovery, transformation, wonder.

The best of all leaders is the one who helps people so that eventually they don’t need him.

I lived in London for eight years and I like to say that I am two parts American and one part British because I lived there for a third of my life

It is my dominant intent to be good to me.

Vocation is the place where the world's greatest need and a person's greatest joy meet.

When you come to a place where you have to left or right, go straight ahead.

I feel alive when I feel ease of heart.

My first crush was Hayley Mills when I was a little kid in England. I used to kiss her picture goodnight.

Don't be a salary slave! If you are going to do anything in this world, you must start before you are forty, before your period of initiative has ended. Do it now!