reason why prosperity spread, and why it continues to spread, is the transmission of technologies and the ideas underlying them.

world is not a zero-sum struggle in which one country's gain is another's loss.

sweatshops are the first rung on the ladder out of extreme poverty

Knowing that an economy is in decline is not enough. We must know why the economy is failing to achieve economic growth if we are to take steps to establish or reestablish it.

People align with movements they can believe in, and it is the human, intellectual, and financial investment in genuine content that defines experiences.

I started performing at school and drama classes when I was 7.

Grieve not; though the journey of life be bitter, and the end unseen, there is no road which does not lead to an end.

I like to work with really good professional people - anyone with real talent.

The measure of a man's life is the well spending of it, and not the length.

But there is one thing most companies struggle to standardize, and ironically, it's the most important part of our efforts to gain and sustain results. It is leadership.

I've never turned into a bee - I've never been chased by a mummy or met a ghost. But many of the ideas in my books are suggested by real life.

Flowers often grow more beautifully on dung-hills than in gardens that look beautifully kept.

I wanted to be a writer from my early teenage years, but I never told anyone. Writers, in my opinion, were god-like creatures, and to say I was striving to be a writer would be incredibly arrogant.

Pride is the carbon-monoxide of Sin. It silently and slowly kills you without you even knowing.