The ability to focus attention on important things is a defining characteristic of intelligence.

In the longer run and for wide-reaching issues, more creative solutions tend to come from imaginative interdisciplinary collaboration.

It amazes me how people are often more willing to act based on little or no data than to use data that is a challenge to assemble.

Some of the best theorizing comes after collecting data because then you become aware of another reality.

Money management has been a profession involving a lot of fakery - people saying they can beat the market, and they really can't.

Economics is (now) about emotion and psychology.

I am worried that the collapse of home prices might turn out to be the most severe since the Great Depression.

Consider our difficulties avoiding junk food and overspending. Such addictions were carefully planned-for by professional marketing teams.

Somehow, talking to young students brings you back to reality - it should, anyway.

Liberalism downplays certain of our moral senses: loyalty, authority, and sanctity.

Life's meaning heavily benefits from lifelong bonds.

The three great acts are love, goodness and self-sacrifice.

Space is not an enterprise that belongs to the U.S. or to Russia or to China - it is a human endeavor and experience. And that's as it should be.

It is time that we as Christians recognize that it is our beliefs and our values and our way of life that are under attack.

Everyone has influence, for good or bad, upon others.

Its been a long time coming but now the snow is gone

Elizabeth Taylor is gorgeous, beautiful, and she still is today, I'm crazy about her.

He who follows his lessons tastes a profound peace, and looks upon everybody as a bunch of manure.

I love Neil Finn. I've loved everything he's done since Split Enz.

Many people, not just Asians, are more concerned with hustling and getting to meetings with contacts to gain success.

Books about suicide make lousy gifts.