Poverty is not just a material problem. Poverty is something wider: it is about powerlessness, about being deprived of basic opportunities and freedom of choice.

Capitalism has given people both the liberty and the incentive to create, produce, and trade, thereby generating prosperity.

The uneven distribution of wealth in the world is due to the uneven distribution of capitalism.

Profit is proof that the capitalist has given something to society that it cherishes more than the material wealth it has given to the businessman.

Any allegation of runaway capitalism has to be tempered by the observation that today we have the largest public sectors and the highest taxes the world has ever known.

Only a starving man asks bread from a begger

It was so much easier when I didn't want anything. Not getting what you want can make you cruel.

There is more in the world than is dreamt of in your philosophy, Doctor - or in the Merck Manual.

Look, I've always been a confident bloke. I'm grateful to my mother for that.

Our goal is to show that you can develop a robust, safe manned space program and do it at an extremely low cost.

And in the wreck of noble lives Something immortal still survives.

... the structure of a page of good prose is, analyzed logically, not something frozen but the vibrating of a bridge, which changes with every step one takes on it.

Clearly, the Obama presidency hasn't wiped out racial prejudices.

Finally, my manager negotiated a deal where I got to produce my own records.