Gross Domestic Product—the substitution, in effect, of ideas for physical value.

In a society governed passively by free markets and free elections, organized greed always defeats disorganized democracy.

Our leaders know we’re turning into a giant ghetto and they are taking every last hubcap they can get their hands on before the rest of us wake up and realize what’s happened.

America is no longer a country that cares about experts. In fact, it hates experts. If you can't fit a story into the culture-war storyline in ten seconds or less, it dies.

intrusive government and layer upon layer of regulatory red tape. When

lenders to trade their long-term income streams for short-term cash. Say

Life took longer to reassemble than it did to blow apart, but that didn't mean it wouldn't be lovely, providing that one remembered to go for country walks, and to tune the wireless to music.

The wealth of time we wastage, is worth much more than all the natural resources we have on the earth.

Only after Winter comes do we know that the pine and the cypress are the last to fade.

I want people to know that the fight is worth it.

I think every actor wants to try out different things.

If you won't believe in yourself, who will?

Five to six thousand people die every year waiting for organs, but nobody cares.

I can't choose the most meaningful song that I've written. That would be like choosing one child over another. But first borns are always special.

Don't let your mind see through your eyes.

What do stars do? They shine.