Mia Farrow was the person I was really excited about getting to know, because Woody Allen is one of my heroes and, just by proxy, I was a huge fan of hers.
In any given age it is only a few extremists who are right.
A free ride is life's most difficult journey.
Liberals have one solution for every economic issue; eat the seed corn.
What is written is more influential than what is said.
The one thing that flies in the face of all human history and experience, is that the government can do a superior job than the private sector.
People who never seen to learn claim the government can be made more efficient.
But thought's the slave of life, and life time's fool.
Every day I wake up and I realize how lucky I am to be living this life.
In fact, batteries haven't improved over the last 100 years as much as they would need to in order to make that happen. So I'm invested in a lot of battery companies - and there's a lot that exists I'm not in. They're all having a tough time achieving it.
The idealist's program of political or economic reform may be impracticable, absurd, demonstrably ridiculous; but it can never be successfully opposed merely by pointing out that this is the case. A negative opposition cannot be wholly effectual: there must be a competing idealism; something must be offered that is not only less objectionable but more desirable.