Read obituaries. They are just like biographies, only shorter. They remind us that interesting, successful people rarely lead orderly, linear lives.

Change is inevitable; but progress depends on what we do with that change.

A market economy is to economics what democracy is to government: a decent, if flawed, choice among many bad alternatives.

Economics is like gravity: Ignore it and you will be in for some rude surprises.

A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on. Ideas have endurance without death.

Don't get your panties in such a twist... and give me back mine.

Man is what he reads.

The failure to readily identify the battle between good and evil is a nagging, ongoing, dangerous pattern that shows no sign of easing up any time soon.

One travels so as to learn once more how to marvel at life in the way a child does. And blessed be the poet, the artist who knows how to keep alive his sense of wonder.

Politicians don't really bring up religion in England.

Writing doesn't require drive. It's like saying a chicken has to have drive to lay an egg.

I began peering into the corners of the room, making sure all the shadows were cast by objects and obeying known laws of physics.

One of the reasons why I enjoy college basketball a little more is because of its team orientation as opposed to individual orientation.

Jet-skiing is my favorite water sport.