Why do some people stop growing at age 30, just going from work to the couch and television, when others stay vibrant, curious, almost childlike into their nineties?

Poverty is not only about income levels, but for lack of freedom that comes from physical insecurity

Philanthropists should find innovations that release the energies of people. Individuals don't want to be taken care of --they need to be given a chance to fulfill their own potential. (142)

Lying is done with words and also with silence.

INTENTION, n. The mind's sense of the prevalence of one set of influences over another set; an effect whose cause is the imminence, immediate or remote, of the performance of an involuntary act.

Teachers are more than any other group the guardians of civilization.

You gotta pay your dues to sing the blues.

To me, a wise and humane policy is occasionally to let inflation rise even when inflation is running above target.

Did you know that today will never be tomorrow.

Nudists have no fashion sense.

What you focus on with your thought and feeling is what you attract into your experience.

My weight doesn't really fluctuate, but I make sure I don't eat late at night. It's about making sure I'm right physically because mentally I'm OK.

Women, like men, ought to have their years so glutted with freedom that they hate the very idea of freedom.