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

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.

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.

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.

Love pouring out of you is evidence of God pouring into you.

You do not need to seek freedom in some distant land, for it exists within your own body, heart, mind, and soul.

The best teams have chemistry. They communicate with each other and they sacrifice personal glory for a common goal.

I absolutely would not have liked playing in Spain or somewhere like that, so I was just gonna do it a year. Then I was gonna be done.

I guess you don't really own a dog, you rent them, and you have to be thankful that you had a long lease.

I grew up in a family where, through my teenage years, I was expected to go to church on Sunday. It wasn't terribly painful.

Intoxication is calculated to put heart into the elderly and give them delight in dancing.

You don’t just go to somebody and say, ‘I’m a better person because you’re in my head.

Society is composed of two great classes, those that have more dinners than appetite, and those who have more appetite than dinners.

If you're born lucky, you don't have to be good.