I went back to graduate school with the clear intention that what I wanted to do with my life was to improve societies, and the way to do that was to find out what made economies work the way they did or fail to work.

Obey the principles without being bound by them.

Bruce Lee

I find in most novels no imagination at all. They seem to think the highest form of the novel is to write about marriage, because that's the most important thing there is for middle-class people.

Gore Vidal

I know acts and I'm not going to name names but these people sold ten million copies the first time and the second album sells three million and it's considered a failure and they're dropped and that's really a shame.

Gerry Beckley

Ethical axioms are founded and tested not very differently from the axioms of science. Truth is what stands the test of experience.

Albert Einstein

I am thankful for laughter, except when milk comes out of my nose.

Woody Allen

As government expands, liberty contracts.

Ronald Reagan

I know of only one duty, and that is to love.

Albert Camus

Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia.

Alexis Carrel

I was in my bed trying to figure out why sometimes you can wake up and go back to sleep and other times you can't

Stephen Chbosky

Voting is the only way to make change in a democracy.

Christine Todd Whitman

Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.

Oscar Wilde

Studio executives are intelligent, brutally overworked men and women who share one thing in common with baseball managers: they wake up every morning of the world with the knowledge that sooner or later they're going to get fired.

William Goldman