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

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.

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

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

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.

I never let myself forget that every single person I meet is a member of this human race. And that includes you, professor, listening to this testimony. As it includes myself.

It was need, Linden. I don’t want to need anything. I can make. I can destroy. Need implies something controls me and nothing controls me.

Customized jewelry is one of my targets with Bold Machines.

I'd love kids. I'm obsessed with babies. Of course I've thought about baby names. A million times. I like Alfie for a little boy.

To achieve your dreams, work is required. Suffering is optional.

I think young people ought to seek the experience that is going to knock them off center.

My ultimate dream is to sow seeds in the desert. To revegetate the deserts is to sow seed in people's hearts.

This is the normal way with birthdays, see? Amazingly enough, they arrive on the same day, every year.

Knowledge will not be acquired without pains and application. It is troublesome and deep, digging for pure waters; but when once you come to the spring, they rise up and meet you.