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

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.

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.

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.

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

Future strong individuals will not take on personal sacrifices, hardships and corporate crap that sidetrack them from their dreams and goals.

God is the source of wisdom for dream accomplishment. This is the principal principle.

Do not lose the enthusiasm of your youth.

Contentment comes from wanting what we need, not needing what we want.

My family was loving... they were very supportive and very affectionate, and basically I could do what I wanted, and basically it wasn't anything dangerous, thank God.

Women are ever the dupes or the victims of their extreme sensitiveness.

Most people are robust. If a man puts his hand on a woman’s bottom, any woman worth her salt can deal with it. It is communication. Can’t we be friendly?

Set yourself earnestly to discover what you are made to do, and then give yourself passionately to the doing of it.

You are precisely as big as what you love and precisely as small as what you allow to annoy you.

One day your heart will take you to your Lover. One day your soul will carry you to the Beloved. Don't get lost in your pain, know that one day your pain will become your cure.