The envy of excellence leads to perdition; the love of it leads to the light.

Like the Pentagon, our social science often reduces all phenomena to dollars and body counts. Sexuality, family unity, kinship, masculine solidarity, maternity, motivation, nurturing, all the rituals of personal identity and development, all the bonds of community, seem "sexist," "superstitious," "mystical," "inefficient," "discriminatory." And, of course, they are -- and they are also indispensable to a civilized society.

Real poverty is less a state of income than a state of mind.

Activity and creativity almost always flow to the least regulated arena.

Television is not vulgar because people are vulgar; it is vulgar because people are similar in their prurient interests and sharply differentiated in their civilized concerns.

A design isn't finished until somebody is using it. Brenda Laurel Intelligent design itself does not have any content.

In embracing change, entrepreneurs ensure social and economic stability.