Each of us has great gifts, but many of us severely limit ourselves with negative attitudes about our potential.
IBM Plus Reality Plus Humanism=Sociology
To have peace and not war, the drift toward a war economy, as facilitated by the moves and the demands of the sophisticated conservatives, must be stopped; to have peace without slump, the tactics and policies of the practical right must be overcome. The political and economic power of both must be broken. The power of these giants of main drift is both economically and politically anchored; both unions and an independent labor party are needed to struggle effective.
Each day men sell little pieces if themselves in order to try to buy then back each night and weekend.
No one can be truly powerful unless he has access to the command of major institutions, for it is over these institutional means of power that the truly powerful are, in the first instance, truly powerful. . .
People with advantages are loath to believe that they just happen to be people with advantages.
The market is sovereign and in the magic economy of the small entrepreneur there is no authoritarian center. . . in the political sphere. . . the equilibrium of powers prevails, and hence there is no chance of despotism.
[My mother] is the greatest hero I'll ever know because she kept us all together, she made sure we all graduated college. She always believed in us no matter what we do. My older brother Joel became an art teacher; my brother Rip ultimately became a television producer and singer and actor himself.
He put one hand lightly on the back of her neck and simultaneously she placed one hand lightly on his hip, and they kissed in the street as all around them people hurried home in the summer light, and it was the sweetest kiss that either of them would ever know. This is where it all begins. Everything starts here, today. And then it was over.
I have one guy that I really have to talk to once a day, and if I don't talk to him once a day, I really feel like something is not completed. This is, like, an attraction story.
Despair and postponement are cowardice and defeat. Men were born to succeed, not to fail.