Investment in girls' education may well be the highest-return investment available in the developing world.

It certainly was difficult to sell NAFTA because it's always difficult to sell open markets.

Blaming speculators as a response to financial crisis goes back at least to the Greeks. It's almost always the wrong response.

The dramatic modernization of the Asian economies ranks alongside the Renaissance and the Industrial Revolution as one of the most important developments in economic history.

Global capital markets pose the same kinds of problems that jet planes do. They are faster, more comfortable, and they get you where you are going better. But the crashes are much more spectacular.

In the history of the world, no one has ever washed a rented car.

All taxes discourage something. Why not discourage bad things like pollution rather than good things like working?

A good rule of thumb for many things in life holds that things take longer to happen than you think they will, and then happen faster than you thought they could.

The availability of private insurance provides tremendous insulation for millions of individuals

Most investors want to do today what they should have done yesterday.

The idea that we should be open to all ideas is very different from the supposition that all ideas are equally valid.

The greatest innovators and history makers of our world were not great because of the formal school system but because of self-development through the proper investment and conversation of time.

It is impossible to graduate from the University of Life with no scars.

If there's one thing I've still got, it's my memory. Which is too bad. Maybe if I forgot things once in a while, we'd all be a little bit happier.

Boys are unpredictable. This maybe not be news, but I'm starting to think it's one of the best things about them.

Like simplicity and candor, and other much-commented qualities, enthusiasm is charming until we meet it face to face, and cannot escape from its charm.

I always go by instinct and then wrestle with where by instinct brought me.

A single crocus blossom ought to be enough to convince our heart that springtime, no matter how predictable, is somehow a gift, gratuitous, gratis, a grace.

A couple of years ago I ran in the LA Marathon.

Rights are either God-given or evolve out of the democratic process. Most rights are based on the ability of people to agree on a social contract, the ability to make and keep agreements.

You always reap what you sow; there is no shortcut.