It's not a bad idea to occasionally spend a little time thinking about things you take for granted. Plain everyday things.

Nice guys finish last, but we get to sleep in.

In principle, there are only three main components of spending that much matter to monetary policy: consumer spending, business investment and exports and trade.

We are more likely to cheat if we see others doing so. We tend to conform to accepted norms of reasonable behaviour, rather than adhere to strict rules.

Someday we'll look back on this moment and plow into a parked car.

If you're not making some mistakes, it probably means you're not trying hard enough.

Men don't know much about women. We do know when they're happy. We know when they're crying, and we know when they're pissed off. We just don't know in what order these are gonna come at us.

It's amazing, if you know what you want to say, how fast it is to write.

Being funny, it turns out, is like being a bank. It's a confidence trick. As long as everyone believes in you, you are fine.

But sometimes it's good to dare yourself to do the unthinkable. And rather than stand in front of an audience with no clothes on, I decided to have a go at stand-up comedy.

Reducing every issue to an argument can become stale but it's often a very good way of clarifying issues.

If we read, we shall renew our mind.

Humans, left to own misguided devices, scratches the Divine in the self as one would the lice, but remember to lick well all the vices.

I’m not used to people sticking around when things go bad, ” she said, by way of explanation.

He wanted to imprison his nameless misery in words.

Reviewers do not read books with much care . . . their profession is more given to stupidity and malice and literary ignorance even than the profession of novelist.

We have to be successful at the cutting-edge industries of the future like Twitter. But we also have always been a country that makes stuff.

I have spoken to a whole group of millionaires, head executives at Microsoft. Boy did I chew those guys out.

We need to welcome the experimental creativity that is always searching out new ways of singing the Gospel, and banish the fear that grips us when familiar music passes away.

Messi has all the conditions to be the best, but first he has to beat Maradona, Romario and then eventually Pele.

The arrogance of some Christians would close heaven to them if, to their misfortune, it existed.