The most common mistake we make as teachers is attempting to tell our students too much.

The most glaring deficiency in traditional economic models is that they completely ignore the role of context in evaluation.

Life is graded on the curve. It's not how big you are, how strong you are, how smart you are. It's how good you are at the things that count relative to the people around you.

No society has ever succeeded without a decent government.

If government is inevitable, the challenge is to come up with the most effective one possible.

Pass down values every day through your actions, your words and your time with your kids.

If the search is for examples that contradict the predictions of standard economic models, a good rule of thumb is to start in France.

In short both the things we feel we need and the things available for us to buy depend largely—beyond some point, almost entirely—on the things that others choose to buy.

As economists have long noted, the puzzle is not that so few people vote, it's that so many do. After all, no individual's vote has ever tipped the balance in a presidential election.

When people bump up against one another in the course of pursuing their goals, it is in everyone's interest to resolve any resulting problems in the least costly ways possible.

The link between rational individual behavior and collectively desirable outcomes is extremely tenuous.

Sarita's been so busy exercising her brain that she hasn't had time for her heart, the poor thing.

It depends on the conscience otherwise

Do I have opinions that might piss people off? Yes - that's what I'm here for.

I'm choosing to suffer less. To put myself and my family through less pain.

Once the mass of the defending infantry become possessed of low moral, the battle is as good as lost.

In the beginning was the Word. Man acts it out. He is the act, not the actor.

The sunshine fails, the shadows grow more dreary, And I am near to fall, infirm and weary.

It cannot be denied that too often the weight of the Christian movement has been on the side of the strong and the powerful and against the weak and oppressed-this, despite the gospel.

If Israel is attacked, America has their back, not just diplomatically, not just culturally, but militarily.

Mendeleev, unlike the squeamish Meyer, had balls enough to predict that new elements would be dug up. Look harder, you chemists and geologists, he seemed to taunt, and you’ll find them.