The rule on staying alive as a forecaster is to give 'em a number or give 'em a date, but never give 'em both at once.

Lawyers (are) operators of the toll bridge across which anyone in search of justice has to pass.

The best real-estate investments with the highest yields are in working-class neighborhoods, because fancy properties are overpriced.

The shortest period of time lies between the minute you put some money away for a rainy day and the unexpected arrival of rain.

The rule on staying alive as a forecaster is to give 'em a number or give 'em a date, but never give 'em both at once.

Even more than the Pill, what has liberated women is that they no longer need to depend on men economically.

Everyone can get a little sloppy with cash and it's smart to notice. But what's squeezing you is the big stuff you ladle onto your credit cards.

Lawyers are operators of toll bridges which anyone in search of justice must pass.

We started off by inviting our friends to use Quora, and then they invited their friends, and it just grew from there.

I've never been a fast writer.

The neurotic is nailed to the cross of his fiction.

Fatherhood is wonderful.

When the British came to Ibo land, for instance, at the beginning of the 20th century, and defeated the men in pitched battles in different places, and set up their administrations, the men surrendered. And it was the women who led the first revolt.

My kind of composing is more like the work of a gardener. The gardener takes his seeds and scatters them, knowing what he is planting but not quite what will grow where and when - and he won't necessarily be able to reproduce it again afterwards either.

Like my father, I don't want to see anyone mistreated, anything like that. I'm very racial-conscious because my father had a lot of, you know, challenges in the area of race. I'm very sensitive to that kind of issue.

It's not about the storms we go through, it's the umbrella that gets us through.

I made a classic mistake. I held out for something better.

We're all brought up to believe that the best players show up in the biggest games, and what bigger game than the Super Bowl? I've just been blessed and very lucky to have two of my best games on that stage.

It's safe to say I'm a comedy nerd. I listen to so many podcasts. I just love to laugh.

To forgive is the vocation of all Christians.

I can't imagine what it would be like to write in a relaxed state. I'm going to be writing some stories for my own interest. I want to experiment with different things and see if I can approach writing with much less control and in a better psychological state. It will be like breaking out of a straitjacket.

You know the passage where Scarlett voices her happiness that her mother is dead, so that she can't see what a bad girl Scarlett has become? Well, that's me.

I went to an inner-city school in Buffalo. We had no money. But our teachers believed in hands-on active learning - there was a mandatory science fair, which was critical.

The world moves fast, but change isn't always a good thing when you got it right the first time around.

Sometimes, life will kick you around, but sooner or later, you realize you’re not just a survivor. You’re a warrior, and you’re stronger than anything life throws your way.

Anytime four New Yorkers get into a cab together without arguing, a bank robbery has just taken place.

Very unusual in an insurgency to have absolutely no political agenda other than to return to power. Most insurgents have a political side to them.

I'm a big fan of pantomime storytelling, being an animator.

The density of settlement of economists over the whole empire of economic science is very uneven, with a few areas of modest size holding the bulk of the population.

While cheap products are exported to western countries, the waste is dumped mostly in China's back yard, contaminating its air, water, soil and seas.

I like dropping into a small club and playing with some people, trying to help them get a start.

Caring about what you are doing is considered either unimportant or taken for granted