An expert whose argument reeks of restraint or nuance often doesn't get much attention.

For emotion is the enemy of rational argument.

A woman's income appeal is a bell-shaped curve: men do not want to date low-earning women, but once a woman starts earning too much, they seem to be scared off.

There are three basic flavours of incentive: economic, social and moral.

Is distinctive black culture the cause of economic disparity between whites and blacks or merely the reflection of it?

When moral posturing is replaced by an honest assessment of the data, the result is often a new, surprising insight.

Conventional wisdom in Galbraith's view must be simple, convenient, comfortable and comforting - though not necessarily true.

Journalists need experts as badly as experts need journalists.

Our mouths and bodies speak for us in a new language as the trees shake loose a rain of petals that stick to our slickness like skins we will wear forever. And just like that, I am changed.

Quiet Days, they look at you, and you will become one with the holy river - nature forms a symbiotic relationship - absolute infinity, truly found, in harmonious caressing arms.

Never, do you hear me? I will give up my friends, my country, my duty, and even my honor—but never you.

For a woman, love is the highest dream, and if a man promises to build a ladder tall enough to reach it, she believes him, hikes up her skirt, and follows him to the stars.

I'm so protected in my Nickelodeon bubble and 'What I Like About You.' It's all pretty much the same people I've worked with and it was pretty protected.

Ride the air In whirlwind.

If at first you don't succeed, pay someone else to do it for you.

Most people know who I am. Then I get the people who don't know who I am and just want to take a picture with a guy with muscles. I get more people that know me than anything.

I don't understand how people live without creating.

Cheating is a definite no-no. My man has to be all mine or never mind!