NASA is increasingly not the future of space exploration. I love the fact that we have private sector folks devoting a lot of money to stimulate innovation in space technology.

I was fifteen in college at Tulane. I lied about my age in college so that I could be normal socially. So that girls would go out with me and stuff like that. I just said I was normal age.

There is too large a divergence at the moment in the interests and values of the world's most powerful states.

An emerging market is a country where politics matters at least as much as economics to the market.

I think political science is bad at prediction. We don't gaze into a crystal ball. I do not believe that we predict things.

Deeper state intervention in an economy means that bureaucratic waste, inefficiency and corruption are more likely to hold back growth.

Sometimes you check things off because you've done them. If you aren't checking stuff off your bucket list, you aren't living very well.

The government has to be on the side of the people if the corporations take too much power.

In China, the state controls the corporations, whereas in the United States, the corporations control the state.

Authoritarian governments are now trying to ensure that the increasingly free flow of ideas and information through cyberspace fuels their economies without threatening their political power.

I think graffiti is part of Berlin culture. You think about what the Berlin wall meant and how visible that was in everyone's life. How it was a part of their very identity.

Time is simply the measurement of human progression against that of existence.

Life is unexchangeable grace.

Overcoming abuse doesn't just happen, It takes positive steps everyday. Let today be the day you start to move forward.

Christmas is, of course, the time to be home - in heart as well as body.

Surely being a Professional Beauty - let alone an ageing one - is one of the most insecure and doomed careers imaginable.

To be loved, we have to love ourselves. Only when we love ourselves do we have enough love to give away. By giving love we then receive love.

Too often we attempt to work for God to the limit of our incompetency, rather than to the limit of God's omnipotency.

Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality.

Our job is to ask questions of children so that children internalize these questions and ask them of themselves and their own emerging drafts.