“Members of Congress are like the voters in one respect -- they want to go with the winners.”

“Young wives are the leading asset of corporate power. They want the suburbs, a house, a settled life, and respectability. They want society to see that they have exchanged themselves for something ...”

“The Function of Leadership is to produce more Leaders, Not more Followers.”

“The resource of generational history is accorded little attention our society, which seems ever more obsessed with making new and better synonymous. From my family I became aware of the importance ...”

“Every time I see something terrible, it's like I see it at age 19. I keep a freshness that way.”

“A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved. He inspires the power and energy to get it done.”

“With a few exceptions, the media have phrased the past five months as a contest of wills between Bush and Saddam Hussein, not as a moment of deragement between two armed madmen willing to order the...”

“Music itself was color-blind but the media and the radio stations segregate it based on their perceptions of the artists.”

“The mediastenographers to power.”

“People don't always need a name.”

“I stole the very shiniest words and hoarded them all up until they made something worth having.”

“Sometimes a name seems our most arbitrary possession,and sometimes it seems like the grain in a rocklike a sculptor's hunk of Italian marble: Whack itand you might get either your first glimpse of ...”

“The more clearly you understand yourself and your emotions, the more you become a lover of what is.”

“There are only two ways to live your life: as though nothing is a miracle, or as though everything is a miracle.”

“The moral of the tale is, don't live for the approval of others. The real you is here to find out the secret of life, not to satisfy someone else's opinion.”