Anybody can cut prices, but it takes brains to make a better article.

Anybody can cut prices, but it takes brains to make a better article.

There is one element that is worth its weight in gold and that is loyalty. It will cover a multitude of weaknesses.

More than four decades after Nixon met Mao, the relationship between the U.S. and China has reached a pivotal moment. To date, even as China has become more powerful and present in our lives, Americans have generally found it to be an unsatisfying 'enemy.'

I don't always wear underwear. When I'm in the heat, especially, I can't wear it. Like, if I'm wearing a flower dress, why do I have to wear underwear?

So far, Senate Republicans are good at getting Facebook likes and town halls and not much else. Do something.

There are lots of countries that are having these kinds of internal civil wars in other parts of the world and nobody is talking about intervening.

Darwin's idea of natural selection makes people uncomfortable because it reverses the direction of tradition.

I just went to Harvard a little while, because I graduated from Armstrong High School in Washington and then I went up there but I didn't stay that long because I went into show business.

I don't know why I run so fast. I just run.

I used to always run off at the mouth and talk about people. I just didn't know that it would make a living for me.

Even two of humanity's most intimate possessions - a sense of self and a body image - are fluid, highly modifiable creations of the brain's mischievous deployment of electricity and a handful of chemicals. They both can change or be changed on less than a second's notice.

We are here to do God's work. He's not here to do ours.

People work so hard, and I want to keep that energy up, and you can spread that if you're the actor. But I'm also not able to turn it on and off like a faucet. A lot of what I'm called upon to play is violent or angry. When I'm messing around with the crew and making jokes, I remember, 'Oh, this is the guy I normally am.'

Israelis are displaying buds of xenophobia.

Obviously, I play a villain in 'Downton Abbey'. As an actor, you want to get a variety of roles, so to be offered the part of Joe, it was perfect.

Human nature is such that monogamy is a really hard thing to achieve.

Badminton is not as glamorous as cricket.

I'm in politics to make the lives of millions of Indians better.

I have encountered on this long road an enthusiasm for an Irishness which will be built on recognising again those sources from which spring the best of our reason and curiosity.

In a universe of ambiguity, this kind of certainty comes only once, and never again, no matter how many lifetimes you live.

It's nearly impossible to believe just how provincial the wine world was in 1978, the year I launched my journal, 'The Wine Advocate.' There were no wines exported from New Zealand and virtually none from Australia (including Penfolds Grange, one of the greatest wines in existence).

If you truly want to be respected by people you love, you must prove to them that you can survive without them.

I'm still very bullish on emerging markets. There's an emerging middle class. They're a growing group of customers. And frankly, they want Walmart. They want everyday low price. And that's why we are continuing to grow in the emerging markets around the world, too.

If you are not happy with the song, don't sing it. Simple as that - no-one forces you to do it.

Memorizing a playbook is like memorizing a script. When they change the script at the last minute it's like changing a play in a game.

I hate writing. I almost never write. I write against deadlines. And when I'm teaching, I'm focused on that.