Knowing that an economy is in decline is not enough. We must know why the economy is failing to achieve economic growth if we are to take steps to establish or reestablish it.

world is not a zero-sum struggle in which one country's gain is another's loss.

sweatshops are the first rung on the ladder out of extreme poverty

reason why prosperity spread, and why it continues to spread, is the transmission of technologies and the ideas underlying them.

It was a two-gallon Styrofoam cooler - one of the cheap ones that you can pick up at any service station in the summer season and then listen to it squeak to the point of homicidal dementia.

Tears are the biggest weapon used by every girl against the boys with a success rate of hundred percent.

I'm allergic to stupidity.

Sometimes I make myself laugh, but that's because I appreciate my sense of humor.

Whenever I start to really think about what I'm playing, I may play it better musically, but the feeling isn't there.

In a radio interview [Ted] Cruz compared [Donald]Trump's behavior to schoolyard children throwing taunts at each other, vowing not to take part.

Throw dirt on me, and grow a wild flower

They're making a ton of money, and no one is getting a nickel.

I'm very happy to have a small, long, career instead of one big hit and then oblivion.

The loveliest materpiece of the heart of God is the love of a Mother.