When people bump up against one another in the course of pursuing their goals, it is in everyone's interest to resolve any resulting problems in the least costly ways possible.

The most glaring deficiency in traditional economic models is that they completely ignore the role of context in evaluation.

Life is graded on the curve. It's not how big you are, how strong you are, how smart you are. It's how good you are at the things that count relative to the people around you.

No society has ever succeeded without a decent government.

If government is inevitable, the challenge is to come up with the most effective one possible.

Pass down values every day through your actions, your words and your time with your kids.

If the search is for examples that contradict the predictions of standard economic models, a good rule of thumb is to start in France.

In short both the things we feel we need and the things available for us to buy depend largely—beyond some point, almost entirely—on the things that others choose to buy.

The most common mistake we make as teachers is attempting to tell our students too much.

As economists have long noted, the puzzle is not that so few people vote, it's that so many do. After all, no individual's vote has ever tipped the balance in a presidential election.

The link between rational individual behavior and collectively desirable outcomes is extremely tenuous.

One must learn a different... sense of time one that depends more on small amounts than big ones.

It is good to act as if. It is even better to grow to the point where it is no longer an act.

If you want to read anything nasty about me, just go to the backpacker websites. There's this kind of elitist branch where they really believe that I had no business going backpacking.

People are motivated to vote early, to defend core American values.

I knew South Africa was going to change; you can't keep people down forever. It's unnatural. Somehow something had to crack, and it did.

I have found men who didn't know how to kiss. I've always found time to teach them.

There is no doubt about how hard it is to stay on top in any sport, but to do it in an individual sport for the majority of your career, it is not easy.

You never heard ofplugging her in ? My God, Myrnin, you made a vampire computer?

The energies of Lagos life- creative, malevolent, ambiguous- converge at the bus stops

On their way toward modern science human beings have discarded meaning. The concept is replaced by the formula, the cause by rules and probability.