The technological revolution at home makes it much easier for computers to do our work.

The tallest building in the world is now in Dubai.

The Berlin Wall wasn't the only barrier to fall after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War. Traditional barriers to the flow of money, trade, people and ideas also fell.

Street protests in Saudi Arabia might warm our hearts, but they could easily lead to $250 a barrel oil and a global recession.

Thanks to the Communist Party of China, we now know the path to poverty alleviation is Capitalism.

But as the arms-control scholar Thomas Schelling once noted, two things are very expensive in international life: promises when they succeed and threats when they fail.

I am an American, not by accident of birth but by choice. I voted with my feet and became an American because I love this country and think it is exceptional.

It all looks American because America, the country that invented mass capitalism and consumerism, got there first. the impact of mass capitalism is now universal.

You know, when the cost of capital goes down, when credit becomes cheap, people start taking greater and greater risks.

In a world awash in debt, power shifts to creditors.

Democracy is also a single ideology, and, like all such templates, it has its limits. what works in a legislature might not work in a corporation.

We were about to give up and call it a night when somebody threw the girl off the bridge.

Dessert is to a meal what a dress is to a woman.

Followers can't give new ideas and never be a leader.

When the thin line between love and hatred faded away completely, madness sprang back to life inside the numb hearts.

But of course there is always a hamartia and yours is that oh, my God, even though you HAD FREAKING CANCER you give money to a company in exchange for the chance to acquire YET MORE CANCER.

An Irishman can be worried by the consciousness that there is nothing to worry about.

The passions I have in my life are my family, music, books, I'm an avid plant collector, and I love to ride my bike.

At the end of the day nobody's perfect and everybody's weird whether they embrace it or not

How dear to my heart are the scenes of my childhood, When fond recollection recalls them to view; The orchard, the meadow, the deep-tangled wildwood, And every loved spot which my infancy knew.

People pay the doctor for his trouble; for his kindness they still remain in his debt.