Consider our difficulties avoiding junk food and overspending. Such addictions were carefully planned-for by professional marketing teams.

In the longer run and for wide-reaching issues, more creative solutions tend to come from imaginative interdisciplinary collaboration.

It amazes me how people are often more willing to act based on little or no data than to use data that is a challenge to assemble.

The ability to focus attention on important things is a defining characteristic of intelligence.

Some of the best theorizing comes after collecting data because then you become aware of another reality.

Money management has been a profession involving a lot of fakery - people saying they can beat the market, and they really can't.

Economics is (now) about emotion and psychology.

I am worried that the collapse of home prices might turn out to be the most severe since the Great Depression.

Somehow, talking to young students brings you back to reality - it should, anyway.

Liberalism downplays certain of our moral senses: loyalty, authority, and sanctity.

Life's meaning heavily benefits from lifelong bonds.

Under peaceful conditions, the warlike man attacks himself.

Good management is the lifeblood of the healthy corporate body. Getting rid of it to save cost is like losing weight by giving blood.

Letters form a by-path of literature, a charming, but occasional, retreat for people of cultivated leisure.

So one could say that the only real problem is dysfunctional thinking, the rest are challenges, not problems.

You know, guys, it is possible for two women to work together and get along.

The aesthetic dimension of the ideal state comes out in the idea of harmony, which is the classical idea of beauty as "concinnitas" or "unity-in-variety".

The Greeks have snatched up their spears. They have pointed the helms of their ships Toward the bulwarks of Troy.

The Earth's population will be culled from today's 6.6 billion to as few as 500 million, with most of the survivors living in the far latitudes - Canada, Iceland, Scandinavia, the Arctic Basin.

It's great the way the old-time directors used to manipulate the hell out of you. You see someone dying and all of a sudden a ghost would come out and they go walking hand in hand up the stairway.

In life you need either inspiration or desperation.