sweatshops are the first rung on the ladder out of extreme poverty

world is not a zero-sum struggle in which one country's gain is another's loss.

Knowing that an economy is in decline is not enough. We must know why the economy is failing to achieve economic growth if we are to take steps to establish or reestablish it.

reason why prosperity spread, and why it continues to spread, is the transmission of technologies and the ideas underlying them.

I beg you, alight and join your sorrow with mine: misfortune wanders everywhere, and settles now upon one and now upon another.

I'd like to say I'm not self-absorbed compared to others, but that's hard to say since I'm far too self-absorbed to pry into others' self-absorption.

Being in Australia, I was really sun conscious. For a couple of summers there, I did the baby oil thing, and my my mom said, 'Just don't. You'll regret it.'

The Beatles mean so much to so many people, you know? Everybody has at least one song of The Beatles that's one of their favorite songs of all time.

Well, just being stupid and politically incorrect doesn't work. You can be politically incorrect if you're smart.

For "I" to become "we" and yet remain "I," is one of the great challenges of marriage.

I'm not worried about facing the Sacramento Queens. Write it down. Take a picture. I'm not going to talk about this all year. When I get back, there's going to be trouble.

A purified mind can grasp anything. It can dive deep into the subtlest subject and understand even transcendental things.

I just had lunch with Slash two days ago. He loves Axl. He holds no grudges towards him. Twenty years of great music wasn't created because of some stupid grudge. That's a shame.

I am in support of the NRA position on gun control.