You can turn away the Mexicans, the African-Americans, the teenagers and other suspect groups, but there's no fence high enough to keep out the repo man.

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.

Historically, the coupling of president and Speaker has been a tricky one that encourages a choreography both quick-footed and wary

Eat bread at pleasure drink wine by measure.

Today I am the happiest man in the world, my son was born and thanks to God for this gift.

If you want to make a friend, let someone do you a favor.

It is the nature of those books we call classics to wait patiently on the shelf for us to grow into them.

When friends ask for a second cup they are open to conversation.

You don't have to be anyone special to achieve something big. You just have to want to do it.

Facebook and Myspace are the U.S. audience, which is tried and true when it comes to being susceptible to ads.

I know nothing but the certainty of my own ignorance.

From the outside, my life may look chaotic, but inside I feel like some kind of monk licking an ice cream cone while straddling a runaway horse.