The nation was not founded by habitual groupthinkers. But it stands a fair chance of being destroyed by them.

The failure to think positively can weigh on a cancer patient like a second disease.

The secret of the truly successful ... is that they learned early in life how not to be busy.

It seems to me that there must be an ecological limit to the number of paper pushers the earth can sustain, and that human civilization will collapse when the number of, say, tax lawyers exceeds the world's total population of farmers, weavers, fisherpersons, and pediatric nurses.

Whenever people can access deities directly without the intervention of a religious hierarchy, they don't need to have hierarchy so much.

Middle-class-led reform movements, from the Progressive Era to the War on Poverty, have been marred by an elitist distance from the would-be beneficiaries of reform.

So why do people keep on watching? The answer, by now, should be perfectly obvious: we love television because television brings us a world in which television does not exist. In fact, deep in their hearts, this is what the spuds crave most: a rich, new, participatory life.