Rich countries don't need as many children. We used to need kids to work in the fields as farm hands, to crawl on their bellies into coal mines. Well, kids are more like luxury objects now.

We face a far greater risk of psychological depression than of economic recession.

The best way to achieve self-esteem is to do something worthy of esteem.

You need somebody to support the retirees. You need to pay into the pension plans. You need people to work at the hospitals, at the nursing homes.

It's a good thing we have immigrant doctors and immigrant engineers, because if you or I get sick this afternoon, we're going to go to the hospital, and we're going to hope someone serves us.

You know, throughout the world, throughout history, when countries get rich, they stop having kids.

If you have waves of immigration, you better figure out a way to turn those immigrants into red-blooded Americans, or else you end up splintering the society.

We're prosperous enough that we can afford to have one in six able-bodied men of working age sitting at home playing video games.

To be dull is easy, to be active requires tremendous work.

August in Florida is God's way of reminding us who's in charge.

I was reading everything under the sun from music history to feminist literature to Shakespeare, which is why I'm not a complete idiot at this time.

There's an obligation to not lead people down the wrong path, but I hardly think me wearing short shorts on stage is creating monsters.

Truth is one, the sages speak of it by many names.

The thing about throwing a fastball is, you want it to be easy, you want it to be effortless.

I don't fake my music. If I want to be known for anything it's for creating honest music. Noting is fake or will ever be fake about the lyrics and pain in my music. My music I live it.

I feel dead, wasted, awful, broken and useless. It's not the kind of feeling you forget.

That's the lesson of the dogs, that it's important to both live in the moment and then go on to the next wonderful thing.