The short-term international capital market is shrunken and erratic, and cannot be relied upon to cushion the effects of tendencies to disequilibrium in the balance of payments.

It Is in the Agricultural Sector That the Battle for Long- Term Economic Development Will Be Won or Lost.

The big majority of Americans, who are comparatively well-off, have developed an ability to have enclaves of people living in the greatest misery almost without noticing them.

So many social changes are as irreversible as the reaction when sodium is thrown into water.

Correlations are not explanations and besides, they can be as spurious as the high correlation in Finland between foxes killed and divorces.

Social taboos are shy like virtue; once lost, there is no remedy

America is conservative in fundamental principles... but the principles conserved are liberal and some, indeed, are radical.

As a forecaster, Marx shared the common destiny of all prophets: to be belied by events.

Language, as we know, is full of illogicalities.

Education has in America's whole history been the major hope for improving the individual and society.

It is no accident that the Victorian age, the heyday of conventionalism, was the cultural bloom of economic liberalism.

Seeing your own name on the book cover is like hearing your book saying, "Hi. Thanks for writing me!

Sometimes there is a microcosm and a macrocosm, and if you're dyslexic like me you can't tell the difference.

Learn all you can from the mistakes of others. You won't have time to make them all yourself.

I've been very fortunate in my career.

I got to meet some of the best people I've ever met, and we all grew as people and as entertainers.

Screw you and your 38,000 twitter followers!

A blur of blinks, taps, jiggles, pivots and shifts ... the body language of a man wishing urgently to be elsewhere.

The general image of a man in an American sitcom is like a complete moron. You'd think the industry was run by a feminist cabal.

I haven't been a leader - not at all.

Probably the sexiest woman I know is my mother.