The new mixed economy looks...for a synergy between public and private sectors.

'Taking charge of one's life' involves risk, because it means confronting a diversity of open possibilities.

Achieving control over change, in respect to lifestyle, demands an engagement with the outer social world rather than a retreat from it.

The risk climate of modernity is thus unsettling for everyone: no one escapes.

The difficulties of living in a secular risk culture are compounded by the importance of lifestyle choices.

The body is thus not simply an 'entity', but is experienced as a practical mode of coping with external situations and events.

Martin Luther King did not stir his audience in 1963 by declaiming 'I have a nightmare'

Apocalypse has become banal, a set of statistical risk parameters to everyone's existence.

Risk concerns future happenings - as related to present practices - and the colonising of the future therefore opens up new settings of risk, some of which are institutionally organised.

The sustaining of life, in a bodily sense as well as in the sense of psychological health, is inherently subject to risk.

The thesis that risk assessment itself is inherently risky is nowhere better borne out than in the area of high-consequence risks.

Don't raise me up, I am but a messenger.

Praised be my Lord, for our sister water.St. Francis of Assisi, Canticle of the Sun

The dreams you craft at the level of your soul are very different from goals, which are tangible, measurable and set the future.

Separate from the pleasure of your company, I don't much care if I never see another mountain in my life.

I am guilty of the great crime of optimism.

When you wake up every day, you have two choices. You can either be positive or negative; an optimist or a pessimist. I choose to be an optimist. It's all a matter of perspective.

To equate a corporation with a person is a travesty of justice.

I do not think very highly of Madame D'Arblay's books. The style is so strutting. She does so stalk about on Dr. Johnson's old stilts.

I grew up in a predominantly Caucasian neighborhood, but my mom is Filipino-Spanish and my dad is Irish.

Pastors are sent to utter the deep things of God for the conviction of sin, and for edification and comfort.