Asia has an army of low-wage laborers to thank for its economic boom.

Debt is not intrinsically bad. But I make clear to my children that they should only borrow as much as they will be able to pay back.

Facebook and other social networking sites are bringing together spheres that used to be separate. People no longer have private and public lives; the line between the two is becoming blurred.

It's completely legitimate for a company to continue striving for growth and higher profits. But business activities have to be conducted in a sustainable manner.

The problem with our Blackberry society is that hardly anyone has time anymore to have an unhurried discussion about the long-term developments that will change our lives.

A Facebook message will never be able to replace face-to-face interaction.

The heads of leading American universities say that if they selected applicants based on grades alone, their student bodies would be 100 percent Asian.

Everything that individuals ever say or write can be used against them at a later point.

Never underestimate the will of a creature who begins to die at birth.

It was not the philosophers and the prophets who taught us to believe in life after death

I think that you never fall out of love with somebody, you just let go and move on.

Love is the strongest force the world possesses, and yet it is the Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown.

[On accepting travel suggestions from her two daughters, 6 and 3:] When they pay for the vacation, they get to dictate where we go.

It's really wonderful to work in an environment with a lot of smart people.

There is only one message that can change the course of human history forever, end the torture, and bring you back to God. That message is The New Gospel: WE ARE ALL ONE.

Writing this book required an enormous amount of help from friends. To them goes the credit. I'll take the money.

I am not concerned with verisimilitude... I am not concerned with capturing reality. I am concerned with creating it myself.

Women always find you out when you lie. Always. No matter what, they always find out. They're like detectives.