Keynes was a very good economist. He was brilliant. He had wonderful insights. His work has inspired me many times.
The college years are when you sow all your wild oats and become a vampire. By 40, you've lived it up. At least, you hope.
I'm lucky to have met so many people who have been involved in peace and who have been peace prize winners.
Wherever you are on Earth, there is more life present than in the rest of the known universe.
Fiction is based on reality unless you're a fairytale artist.
Books have become our dearest companions, yielding exquisite delights and inspiring lofty aims.
Really, what education does is it gives opportunity, but it also gives hope.
I do love critters.
I tell my 5-year-old, 'Once you commit to something, stick it out.' I would never want him to look at Dad and think Dad was a quitter.
I think I've learned not to take everything so seriously and just try to focus on the work the most.
I don't like bullies or selfishness or people who are grumpy.
You can't transfer the extra cost (of power) to the customer because their income hasn't increased.
When you sit down and see someone play at a piano, you don't think, 'Wow - what a fantastic machine.'
I don't think I ever intended to violate the president's order.
I love the New York that was. The end for me was Studio 54. I don't go out at night anymore.
Below the navel there is neither religion nor truth.
A clear conscience laughs at false accusations.
The winner has many friends, the loser has good friends.
A fool's tongue is long enough to cut his own throat.
Time is a wealth of change, but the clock in its parody makes it mere change and no wealth.
When the sky falls we'll all catch larks.
Silence was never written down.
He that is warm thinks all so.
If you would shoot a general, shoot his horse first.
With money, a dragon - without it, a worm.
Silence is the voice of complicity.
Do not rejoice at my grief, for when mine is old yours will be new.
If the mountain won't come to mohammed, mohammed must go to the mountain.
Before telling secrets on the road, look in the bushes.
The eye that sees all things else, sees not itself.
