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

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

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

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.

At crossroad, God is our guide post. He points the right path.

Micro: Letters create words. Words create language. Language, we are told, permits knowledge & expression. Language is what we are. Are we jailed?

There is a difference between what you want, and what you need.

I think the whole concept of monotheism is a gift from the gods.

Hawaiian to me is a feeling of getting somewhere, without stepping on anybodys toes, without causing friction with anybody.

Communication works for those who work at it.

Do not expect Plato's ideal republic; be satisfied with even the smallest step forward, and consider this no small achievement.

I don't go for the flash and panache.

Live like a mud-fish: its skin is bright and shiny even though it lives in mud.

If your theological convictions are not producing a deeper love for others, then it's time to rethink some stuff.