'Taking charge of one's life' involves risk, because it means confronting a diversity of open possibilities.

Regimes are modes of self-discipline, but are not solely constituted by the orderings of convention in day-to-day life; they are personal habits, organised in some part according to social conventions, but also formed by personal inclinations and dispositions. Regimes are of central importance to self-identity precisely because they connect habits with aspects of the visible appearance of the body.

Lifestyles are routined practices, the routines incorporated into habits of dress, eating, modes of acting and favoured milieux for encountering others; but the routines followed are reflexively open to change in the light of the mobile nature of self-identity.

Martin Luther King did not stir his audience in 1963 by declaiming 'I have a nightmare'

The new mixed economy looks...for a synergy between public and private sectors.

The risk climate of modernity is thus unsettling for everyone: no one escapes.

The body is in some sense perennially at risk. The possibility of bodily injury is ever-present, even in the most familiar of surroundings.