These long-run worries, there's an element of truth to them, but I think frankly the fears are exaggerated.

When I hear [about a housing bubble] I get the sense that people aren't connecting the dots.

To a normal person, $10 million will seem like enough. But anyone who thinks that's enough is not the type that can acquire that much in the first place.

I think that the United States should be the leader, not only militarily. We need to stand for freedom; we need to stand for justice in the world, because there aren't too many countries that do.

I don't worry about new home sales

Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble-making individual.

There is more to life than making a living. Do not work more than you live.

A society can be Pareto optimal and still perfectly disgusting.

To be perfectly honest, I enjoy thinking dangerously

[A] book is not merely a book, it is the sun as well.

Good leaders must communicate vision clearly, creatively, and continually. However, the vision doesn't come alive until the leader models it.

Education should be one of our top funding priorities talking about it does not help the teachers and students who desperately need promises fulfilled.

Addiction struggle is believing you are separate from love. It took me a long time to glimpse that.

Fashion is the healthiest motivation for losing weight.

I'm a filmmaker. I'm an artist. I've chosen to work in history the way someone might choose to work in still lifes or landscapes.

In countries where all the crooked politicians wear pin-striped suits, the best people are bare-assed.