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When we foster an economy without hope, we guarantee that a segment of our population will be destined to know homelessness on a permanent basis, and not for the one night I voluntarily spent at a shelter.

Persons who have been homeless carry within them a certain philosophy of life which makes them apprehensive about ownership.

Being homeless is like living in a post-apocalyptic world. You're on the outskirts of society.

I've been homeless on a few occasions.

When I recently spent a night at a homeless shelter, I was dismayed that members of the middle class had moved in and that earning above the minimum wage did not protect adults from having to share a room with dozens of others.

I have always felt a little homeless. It's a strange thing.

I'm not so sure that people consider homelessness to be as important as, say, the Vietnam War. One should never even try to equate them because, of course, they're tragedies on both sides of the coin.

You could go out and give a million dollars to a charity tomorrow to help the homeless. You could argue that it is just wasted. They are not putting anything back into the community.

We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run down.

It turns out that the rich are much better placed to feed at the public trough. The poor get crumbs.