In the history of the world, no one has ever washed a rented car.

It certainly was difficult to sell NAFTA because it's always difficult to sell open markets.

Blaming speculators as a response to financial crisis goes back at least to the Greeks. It's almost always the wrong response.

The dramatic modernization of the Asian economies ranks alongside the Renaissance and the Industrial Revolution as one of the most important developments in economic history.

Global capital markets pose the same kinds of problems that jet planes do. They are faster, more comfortable, and they get you where you are going better. But the crashes are much more spectacular.

All taxes discourage something. Why not discourage bad things like pollution rather than good things like working?

A good rule of thumb for many things in life holds that things take longer to happen than you think they will, and then happen faster than you thought they could.

The availability of private insurance provides tremendous insulation for millions of individuals

Most investors want to do today what they should have done yesterday.

The idea that we should be open to all ideas is very different from the supposition that all ideas are equally valid.

The only antidote to dangerous ideas is strong alternatives vigorously advocated.

the bleakest situations bring out the hospitality in all of us, but it's during the harshest we find out how strong we really are.

If you have to pay the bills, and you write something you're not proud of, use a pen-name for that.

I think very highly of myself. I think I'm capable of a lot of things on the field.

The "October Revolution" is a myth generated by the winners, the Bolsheviks, and swallowed whole by progressive circles in the West.

Part of what Im about is seeing how I can paint the same thing differently instead of different things the same way.

My lips are big, but my talent is bigger.

Deep meaning lies often in childish play.

Believe it or not, I've got a really bad metabolism. One burger and I'm done. I'm not a guy that puts away 10 burgers.

I rely on the promise, God is kind to women, fools, and drunk people.

Any artist should be grateful for a naive grace which puts him beyond the need to reason elaborately.