What we tell students in formal schooling: “Sit down, stay quiet, and absorb. Do this for 12 to 16 years and all will be well.

If China and India were as rich as the United States is today, the market for cancer drugs would be eight times larger than it is now.

It seems to me that the price of eternal vigilance is liberty.

I think modern television shows, with their intricate plots, are stimulating our minds. This is one reason IQs have been going up.

The only way to thrive is to innovate. It's that simple.

A bet is a tax on bullshit; and it is a just tax, tribute paid by the bullshitters to those with genuine knowledge.

Conservatives have long argued, correctly, that 'fine-tuning' the economy is a chimera, but that argument seems to have disappeared from the conservative handbook.

Going to college is neither necessary nor sufficient to be well-educated.

As far as wages are concerned, the only difference between immigration and birth is that birth takes longer.

Democracy is an experimental system. I like it when states try out new ideas. I think we ought to expand, not contract, our federalist system.

Well-roundedness comes not from sitting in a classroom but from experiencing the larger world.

The vortex. You can see the entire galaxy up there. More stars than you ever knew existed.

The minute you step away from the negative people in your life you will instantly see the beauty in your horizon.

Love is a volcano, the crater of which no wise man will approach too nearly, lest ... he should be swallowed up.

I was Versace's muse, I was Valentino's muse, I was Alaia's muse, Lancetti's muse, Calvin Klein's, Halston's. I could go on and on.

I'm super-obsessed with law enforcement. I'm what you'd call a 'cop fan.

I think everyone should live in New York City if they ever get the chance at least once in their life. It's such a great place to live; there's a different energy about living in the city.

Slavery is also as ancient as war, and war as human nature.

If you want your business to survive for 100 years, you've got to make it through every single day for 100 years. It's not enough to do it 99.9% of the time.

The tallest and the smallest among us are so alike diminutive and pitifully base, it is a meanness to calculate the difference.

[YSL creative director] Hedi [Slimane] is a music-obsessed guy. I might've originally met him through Sky.