If printing money helped the economy, then counterfeiting should be legal

The "human condition" is always to push forward for the better and economics is the study of that process.

Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too, was a gift.

China and India will take the global leadership on climate change: they are suffering for it.

The rain was still crashing down, angrily machine-gunning the large windows; it poured through the gutters up in the tower and funneled along the flat roof, sounding like footsteps on the ceiling.

I'm a Valley Girl. You can't get me out of the Valley, I'm still here.

Fortunately, for me, my main asset is speed. Plain and simple.

Nationalism is blamed for this century's wars, but nationalism need not mean militarism. And the nation-state has been the laboratory of liberty.

Sociology, the guilty science, functions best by alarm.

The childhood shows the man As morning shows the day. Be famous then By wisdom; as thy empire must extend, So let extend thy mind o'er all the world.

Never," he spat out, "kick a man who is pointing a gun at you.

Boston is an oasis in the desert, a place where the larger proportion of people are loving, rational and happy.