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

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.

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.

The one regret I have about my own abortions is that they cost money that might otherwise have been spent on something more pleasurable, like taking the kids to movies and theme parks.

A business has to be involving, it has to be fun, and it has to exercise your creative instincts.

On a medical school professor noted for slowly, carefully interviewing the patient: "He taught the love of truth.

I consider myself a martial artist and an actor. They can work together or individually. I love to do action. I love having a good role in which I can act and fight. That's double happiness.

Morning Joe was boring. Scarborough is neither eloquent nor funny.

La raison du plus fort est toujours la meilleure. The reason of the strongest is always the best.

The gathering of believers should be an opportunity for wonder, anticipation and imagination; not drudgery, duty or routine.

I don't feel like taking anybody's money.

If the Labour party goes back to reasserting its socialist and democratic beliefs, that's where I belong.

Effective interdependence can only be built on true independence.

No education can be of true advantage to young women but that which trains them up in humble industry, in great plainness of living, in exact modesty of dress.