The pendulum of economic power might well begin to shift from capital back to labor.

If, as I suspect, the American consumer now enters a sustained slowdown, there will be unmistakable reverberations on U.S.-centric export flows in many major regions of the world.

To the extent that hiring in high-wage, developed economies continues to lag, the sustainability of any impetus to private consumption can be drawn into serious question.

You never lose friends. You just discover who your real friends are.

His body felt so good that she didn't care if she ever came up for air. She wanted this kiss to last forever.

The marriage between potential and inspiration is pronounced by willingness. If one isn't there, then you will chase inspiration instead of it finding you.

You only have to start a job of work to realize how few decent, honest folk there are about.

If everyone lives roughly the same lies about the same thing, there is no one to call them liars. They jointly establish their own sanity and themselves normal.

Integrity gains strength by use.

The story behind every song is individual to itself.

If you stop to be kind, you must swerve often from your path.

There's a man upon that ledge, he's only cleaning windows. What a shame for the pain we're missing. Gonna lean back on my wall and pray for him to fall.

To me, there is no such thing as a trash duck. There are ducks that are a lot better to eat than other ducks. But a duck is just that.