After graduating in engineering I went to the University of Kansas to get an MA in economics as a vehicle for allowing me to decide if I wanted to continue in economics.

After my stellar first grade academic achievements, I continued to perform well in the city primary schools - except for penmanship, which was not my forte.

I can still memory - taste the fresh buttermilk pancakes and hot buttermilk biscuits - both made with lard! - that were cooked on the top, or in the oven, of that ancient iron stove.

Hayek, in my view, is the leading economic thinker of the 20th century.

Yes, long hours and a hard life for my parents, but for a six to seven year old every new day dawned with fresh excitement when you have not a care in the world, and so much to learn and witness.

I still have my original social security card signed when I was 13.

Caltech was a meat grinder like I could never have imagined.

Jack of all trades or master of one? If you're a master of one, you'll soon be a master of none. Times are a changin. Be a jack of all trades. Or better, master of many!

Long time ago I had this thing called hope, but like I said it was long ago

The only situation that I can't be in favour of is the lack of respect to human rights in Venezuela.

I never learn my lesson.

I love to flirt, and I've never met a man I didn't like.

Man was not breathed into the earth. Man came out of the earth.

Nearly all legislation involves a weighing of public needs as against private desires; and likewise a weighing of relative social values.

Sometimes the riskiest decision you can make is to do nothing.

Honestly all the sweets and bad stuff on set don't really call to me because I'm working so much. I've trained myself to stay away from sugar.

Atheism is a natural and inseparable part of Marxism, of the theory and practice of scientific socialism. Our program necessarily includes the propaganda of atheism.