If government is inevitable, the challenge is to come up with the most effective one possible.

The most glaring deficiency in traditional economic models is that they completely ignore the role of context in evaluation.

Life is graded on the curve. It's not how big you are, how strong you are, how smart you are. It's how good you are at the things that count relative to the people around you.

No society has ever succeeded without a decent government.

Pass down values every day through your actions, your words and your time with your kids.

If the search is for examples that contradict the predictions of standard economic models, a good rule of thumb is to start in France.

In short both the things we feel we need and the things available for us to buy depend largely—beyond some point, almost entirely—on the things that others choose to buy.

The most common mistake we make as teachers is attempting to tell our students too much.

As economists have long noted, the puzzle is not that so few people vote, it's that so many do. After all, no individual's vote has ever tipped the balance in a presidential election.

When people bump up against one another in the course of pursuing their goals, it is in everyone's interest to resolve any resulting problems in the least costly ways possible.

The link between rational individual behavior and collectively desirable outcomes is extremely tenuous.

...most Substance-addicted people are also addicted to thinking, meaning they have a compulsive and unhealthy relationship with their own thinking.

I'd ruin any day, all my days, for those long nights with you. And I did. But that right there was why it was doomed.

You live in a dangerous place when you sacrifice integrity for security.

When people think of diversity, they think people of color, but it also means women, who are severely underrepresented as directors, writers and producers.

Men have never been good, they are not good and they never will be good.

Literature incarnates its meanings as concretely as possible. The knowledge that literature gives of a subject is the kind of knowledge that is obtained by (vicariously) living through an experience.

Lies are essential to humanity.

Genius has no youth, but starts with the ripeness of age and old experience.

If thou wilt think evil of thy neighbour, soon shalt thou have him for thy foe.