Maximal demand — “How to define our highest spiritual or moral aspirations for human beings, while showing a path to the transformation involved which doesn’t crush, mutilate or deny what is essential to our humanity” (pp. 639–640).

Age of Authenticity

Age of Mobilization

Ancien regime

Buffered self

Closed world structures

Cross-pressure

Excarnation

Exclusive humanism

Expressive individualism

Fragilization

Fullness

Immanent frame

Immanentization

Modern moral order

Nova effect

Porous self

Reform

Secular 1

Secular 2

Secular 3

Secularism

Social imaginary

Spin

Subtraction stories

Take

Transformation perspective

Unthought

Nature conserves, prefers novelty.

If I just did music, I might go insane. I need words; I need stories. And it's the same the other way around.

I really want to do a Western. I want to be the dude who is riding horses and doing exciting things - something where I get to do something physical and have to train for it. I don't want to be the damsel.

Music has healing power. It has the ability to take people out of themselves for a few hours.

Successful people are not interesting. I feel for the losers. That's where my heart lies.

We know that dictators are quick to choose aggression, while free nations strive to resolve differences in peace.

It's really interesting that whenever you do something that is so out of character, like having an emotional outburst, that you don't get in trouble.

Journalism classes would have been interesting to me.

It is hard to convince a high school student that he will encounter a lot of problems more difficult than those of algebra and geometry.

In 1997, in Rich Dad, Poor Dad, I stated, 'Your home is not an asset.' Real estate agents sent me hate mail.

If you're a Conservative, why aren't you behind conserving the land?

I meditate. I've been a meditator since, I think I was doing it unofficially before all my life and then began to formalize it somewhere around 14.

Keeping your private life as private as possible is the smartest thing.

Work hard in silence, let success make the noise.

I was very restless, but finally I found my way.

Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.

Let students use technologies in the classroom.

I think everything works in cycles. I was fortunate enough to come along in the golden age for big men. There were guys like Hakeem Olajuwon and Patrick Ewing.

I not only have the right to stand up for myself, but I have the responsibility. I can't ask somebody else to stand up for me if I won't stand up for myself. And once you stand up for yourself, you'd be surprised that people say, "Can I be of help?".

Happiness is like coke - something you get as a by-product in the process of something else.

The Fourth Amendment doesn't apply to corporations.