To learn is to change how you think.

Rather marvelously, the older brain only permits change when it judges that change to be important, rewarding or good for it.

Learning a new skill can change hundreds of millions of cortical connections.

My mantra: Brainless exercise is a lost opportunity for improvement.

Even a heart of a kitten is reliable, if you know how to rely on

You can't keep resisting my irresistibleness, Natara Stone. You'll give in eventually, and I won't quit until you do.

Each city in the southeastern part of the United States has its own unique type of specialty food that can be only found in that city, and it all happens to be called 'barbecue'.

Capital is necessary to the cultivation of esthetic value.

I'm very homework-oriented - I'm a little Tracy Flick-ish.

Early in the morning, at break of day, in all the freshness and dawn of one's strength, to read a book -I call that vicious!

We've seen the volatility at dollar-yen, U.S. Treasurys, JGBs (Japanese government bonds), German bunds.

Our culture is in moral chaos. On TV we celebrate freaks instead of honest, decent people.

In China the underworld and officialdom have interpenetrated and become one. Criminal elements have become officialized as officials have become criminalized.

Indifference is commonly the mother of discretion.