But our culture is in truly bad shape if we have come to define respecting something as the failure to set it on fire.

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.

You were not created to come to this earth and say "me too I came to live some". You were create to make a difference!

I love Thanksgiving because it's a holiday that is centered around food and family, two things that are of utmost importance to me.

The hardest part is to travel, and to be away from your family.

I always wake up at the crack of ice.

Gender is not something that one is, it is something one does, an act… a doing rather than a being.

We have to be careful in how we use this light shined on us.

No woman who understands the gospel would ever think that any other work is more important or would ever say, "I am just a mother," for mothers heal the souls of men.

No great work can be achieved by humbug. It is through love, a passion for truth, and tremendous energy, that all undertakings are accomplished.

When crushed to your knees, it is best to dig in your heels.

Superfluity comes sooner by white hairs, but competency lives longer.