There are men and gods, and beings like Pythagoras.
The major challenge for the United States is whether it can become the first outward-looking, continental, nonimperialist power in history.
As long as we keep our fundamentals strong. . . the dollar (and) U. S. borrowing costs will do just fine.
THERE ARE IDIOTS. Look around.
Where countries have been able to carry through on their reform commitments - as in Korea, Thailand and the Philippines - results are starting to come in the form of lower interest rates, new investment and increased growth.
Start with the idea that you can't repeal the laws of economics. Even if they are inconvenient.
We must recognise that in an integrated world, trade cannot be divorced from other concerns. We need to promote free trade and serious global efforts with respect to common problems even as we support every nation's right to chart its own course.
It has long been known to me that certain objects want you as much as you want them. These are the ones that become important, the objects that you hold dear. The others fade from your life entirely. You wanted them, but they did not want you in return.
I began to write short pieces when I was living in a room too small to write a novel in.
Children's stories force logic upon the gruesome facts of our lives. They mirror our troubles and submit them to a chain of causality.
I get annoyed with movies or books, songs or records that deliberately try to make you feel a certain way.