Capitalism is destroying the planet. The two old tricks that dug it out of past crises--War and Shopping--simply will not work.

Do we need weapons to fight wars? Or do we need wars to create markets for weapons?

Opportunity will not only knock on the door when you are ready, it will stand just next to the door to open it.

But I don't want massive layoffs of anyone - public or private. We are planning on shrinking government through attrition and reform, not through random pink slips.

She hath no loyal knight and true, The Lady of Shalott.

Art is a form of intelligence, it can be developed, it's linked to intuition and it's something that all humans have

He's wild, you know. Not like a tame lion.

Human nature provides the lyrics, and we novelists just compose the music.

We all salute, with pride, the same American Flag. And we are equal - totally equal - in the eyes of Almighty God.

When a person puts his best foot forward and gets it stepped on, that's life.

To practice NVC, it's critical for me to be able to slow down, take my time, to come from an energy I choose, the one I believe that we were meant to come from, not the one I was programmed into.

I'm a serious eater and a seriously hungry person, so I set out on that path to figure it out for myself, and of course it really resonated with other people.