The cleanup costs of polluting a river, injecting pesticides into the ground water, or putting noxious gases into the air have not been figured into the cost of the manufacturing or agribusiness that put them there in the first place. Historically, the economic incentive has been to pollute.

We have to imagine change before we can begin to move toward it.

Though both erotica and pornography refer to verbal or pictorial representations of sexual behavior, they are as different as a room with doors open and one with doors locked. The first might be a home, but the second could only be a prison.

To me, the model of success is not linear. Success is completing the full circle of yourself.

The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.

For the reader who has put away comic books, but isn't yet ready for editorials in the Daily News.

People waste more time waiting for someone to take charge of their lives than they do in any other pursuit.