Surrogate motherhood has been the subject of much philosophical and political dispute over the years.

In the last James Bond movie, the villain was a culture captain, a tycoon of culture, a Murdoch figure. It's not as if people don't know what is going on.

For-profit higher education is today a booming industry, feeding on the student loans handed out to the desperate.

Massive inequality, we have learned, isn't the best way to run an economy after all. And when you think about it, it's also profoundly ugly.

Bad government is the natural product of rule by those who believe government is bad.

When money is exchanged for pregnancy, some believe, surrogacy comes close to organ-selling, or even baby-selling.

Promises to get beyond partisanship are the most perfunctory sort of campaign rhetoric, almost as empty as the partisanship itself.

I was in a bad mood when I wrote that.

I think there's great potential for autonomy, but we have to remember that we live in a world where people may have free will but have not invented their circumstances.

What becomes fascinating is the way the culture industry doesn't deny it and doesn't try to mitigate it, but tries to sell its products as a way of liberating oneself.

These days, of course, the focus of talk about popular liberation through products is mostly associated with the Internet. I've been collecting computer ads and ads dealing with Internet industries.

You have the power within you to choose a life of love and beauty or choose a life of misery and destruction. What you chose, that you will attract and that you will manifest.

The years have simply reconciled us to the fact that we are all here for the transformation.

We cannot possibly let ourselves get frozen into regarding everyone we do not know as an absolute stranger.

I am, in plainer words, a bundle of prejudices - made up of likings and dislikings.

We all only have 1440 minutes a day. Accept you can't do it all, focus on what's important and do that well.

Seeds sewn in adversity bear the greatest fruit.

Suffering did different things to different people...Some souls became tempered, unshakable in their faith, while others became twisted and mis-shapen, throwing off all connection to God.

Realize that the Lord is here now, and the freedom you receive is immediate.

I never thought I would become a photographer.

Everyone wants to label me, but I don't want to be labeled as a rapper or a movie actor.