“Sometimes you just need to distance yourself from people. If they care, they'll notice. If they don't, you know where you stand.”

“Revenge is always the weak pleasure of a little and narrow mind.”

“If you want to know where your heart is, look where your mind goes when it wanders.”

“A negative mind will never give you a positive life.”

“Society is going to judge you no matter what you do.”

“Never allow society to turn you into a person you are not.”

“We don't think a sustainable society need be stagnant, boring, uniform, or rigid. It need not be, and probably could not be, centrally controlled or authoritarian. It could be a world that has the ...”

“Measurement aside, there are two reasons aggregate growth might matter. The first is to create jobs to assimilate the unemployed and anticipate increases in population. The second is to improve liv...”

“On the night of New Years Day, I thought of a wonderful New Years resolution for the men who run the world: get to know the people who only live in it.”

“The difference between a politician and a statesman is that a politician thinks about the next election while the statesman think about the next generation.”

“He was a consummate politician-- which is to say he was given to expedient speech and lacked even a vestigial spine.”