Before you build a better mousetrap, it helps to know if there are any mice out there.

Natural erosion had reduced the critical barrier islands in the Gulf, the result of the destruction of some 300,000 acres of wetlands. This amounted to 30 miles of marshlands.

The most critical factor subduing the demand for housing is that home ownership is no longer seen as the great, long-term buildup in equity value it once was.

These days, government employees are better off in almost every area: pay, benefits, time off and security, on top of working fewer hours.

Surely, if Mother Nature had been consulted, she would never have consented to building a city in New Orleans.

Americans cannot maintain their essential faith in government if there are two Americas, in which the private sector's work subsidizes the disproportionate benefits of this new public sector elite.

The unique danger today is the possibility that we may face longer-term stagnation as a consequence of relying too heavily on borrowed money.

Fewer Americans are at work today than in April 2000, even though the population since then has grown by 31 million.

Never buy a saddle until you have met the horse.

He does what he thinks God would do if God only knew the facts.

Never have I experienced a serenity and sweetness of disposition as with my Chocolate Lab.

It is no surprise that the first and always unwelcome message of male initiation rites is LIFE – IS – HARD.

I noticed you weren't checking your watches - you've been shaking them.

In almost every job now, people use software and work with information to enable their organization to operate more effectively.

We can actually reconstruct our past by examining what we think, say, feel, expect, believe, and do in an intimate relationship now.

Our life is frittered away by detail... simplify, simplify.

If you don't like basketball and you're from Kentucky, they'll kick you out!

As I've gotten older and learned more, I realise that Hollywood has not told the truth.

Few men survey themselves with so much severity as not to admit prejudices in their own favor.

I think kids should have a mentor and a role model, but that they shouldn't take one person's opinion to be what we call final assessment or judgment about how life is supposed to be.

I can kind of picture what I want to do and my body just does it. You feel your way through a trick. I close my eyes sometimes.