He who lives by the crystal ball soon learns to eat ground glass.

For economist the real world is often a special case.

Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers - six if one went to Harvard.

The herd instinct among forecasters makes sheep look like independent thinkers.

He who lives by the crystal ball soon learns to eat ground glass.

If you have to forecast, forecast often.

There will come a day when I can no longer run. Today is not that day.

Harvard, Yale, Princeton, and the rest of the Ivy League are worthy institutions, to be sure, but they're not known for educating large numbers of poor young people.

Susan B. Anthony said that the bicycle did more to emancipate women than any other single thing. The bicycle was linked in the psyches of women at that time as a symbol of practical emancipation. Women could go places, wear their skirts shorter to manage the bicycle, and be independent.

Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.

...try to remember that dreams do come true, but they don't come easily.

I disagree with a lot of those changes, however at the end of the day - I go down to recruit graduation at least once or twice a year.

I like to draw, produce paintings, do something with my fingers - but I am very normal, down-to-earth person.

The crises in North Korea, Iran, the Middle East, show how quickly things can change and how they can go wrong. We must be prepared. And right now the Army is not.

Conflict avoidance often causes greater conflict.

Research can be a big clunker. It's difficult to know how you can make the historical light.

I am not very tough with raising my children, but you can argue that to be more tough will help your children.

My favorite memories were with my dad, throwing a football around when he came home from work. As long as kids are having fun, that's the biggest deal at the end of the day.

Life is not fair, it never was and it is now and it won’t ever be. Do not fall into the trap. The entitlement trap, of feeling like you’re a victim. You are not.

I want to be a better person in every aspect. I really don't feel I've in anyway fulfilled my potential in every area of my life. But I'm optimistic.

The hours we pass with happy prospects in view are more pleasing than those crowded with fruition.

Lead the audience by the nose to the thought.

Everybody in the world knew I was before I knew who I was.

Love isn't love until you give it away.

Hierarchy is is much reviled in the present day.

I began my writing career in a very isolated place and time.

People talked to me in a way I think they would not have talked to somebody who hadn't shared the experience; they gave me their papers, they gave me their diaries. I found people constantly opening up to me. And I think they did because I had shared that experience with them.

Fallon tells me about first starting 'Late Night': how he knew audiences were dubious.

In the end we discover the only condition for living is to die.

I was made to believe there was a plan in place for ending Donald's previous marriage. I pulled away because I wanted to allow him the time to deal with his wife.