I think modern television shows, with their intricate plots, are stimulating our minds. This is one reason IQs have been going up.

If China and India were as rich as the United States is today, the market for cancer drugs would be eight times larger than it is now.

It seems to me that the price of eternal vigilance is liberty.

The only way to thrive is to innovate. It's that simple.

A bet is a tax on bullshit; and it is a just tax, tribute paid by the bullshitters to those with genuine knowledge.

Conservatives have long argued, correctly, that 'fine-tuning' the economy is a chimera, but that argument seems to have disappeared from the conservative handbook.

What we tell students in formal schooling: “Sit down, stay quiet, and absorb. Do this for 12 to 16 years and all will be well.

Going to college is neither necessary nor sufficient to be well-educated.

As far as wages are concerned, the only difference between immigration and birth is that birth takes longer.

Democracy is an experimental system. I like it when states try out new ideas. I think we ought to expand, not contract, our federalist system.

Well-roundedness comes not from sitting in a classroom but from experiencing the larger world.

It is your responsibility to find fault with me, it is mine to hear you out. But don't expect me to change.

Then you must teach my daughter this same lesson. How to lose your innocence but not your hope. How to laugh forever.

The stretching of your faith is immediate pain that results in ultimate gain. It is in the waiting that we become who we are meant to be.

There's no unemployment insurance if you don't have a job in wrestling. You really have to be committed, to have a love and a passion for the sport, a belief in yourself that you can do it.

So often we only do what we think is expected of us, when we are capable of so much more.

I wanted to be a sportswriter because I loved sports and I could not hit the curve ball, the jump shot, or the opposing ball carrier.

Sicily could only be an island, less by the caprice of nature than by her own insolence. As though she might have quit Italy had she not already been born separate from it.

Things just happen, it will pass, it's your learning process.

Every person has their own unique circumstances to overcome, but every single person has the opportunity to achieve anything - and change everything.

Nothing that's good works by itself, you've got to make the damn thing work.