I try to be as efficient as possible.

Businessmen... were not born chief executives. They were often people first.

I try to be as efficient as possible.

I'm insanely optimistic. For odd, weird reasons, things always work out.

I want to play for a championship team. I want to win a championship.

If I get an opportunity to play for a championship team, I'm going to go hunting for that. I have no loyalty.

My job is to give everyone a chance to catch their breath and step back from all this and get back to work.

'Globalization' has become the great tag phrase, but when we talk about it, it's nearly always in terms of the global marketplace or communications technology - either data or goods that are whizzing around. We forget that people are whizzing around more and more. On them, it takes a toll.

The journey and excursions in Mexico which have originated the narrative and remarks contained in this volume were made in the months of March, April, May, and June of 1856, for the most part on horseback.

It doesn't matter how much wisdom you have. If you don't have position, you have nothing. That's the tragedy of India.

One of my most exciting Saturday nights was just me and a bottle of wine and a crochet book.

The relevance of Marxism to science is that it removes it from its imagined position of complete detachment and shows it as a part, but a critically important part, of economy and social development.

Well-washed and well-combed domestic pets grow dull; they miss the stimulus of fleas.

It's vital that we help them get the right start, nurture their development and provide for their well-being.

There's definitely evidence that capitalism at its most ruthless rewards psychopathic behavior. When you look at the worst corners of the American health insurance industry or the sub-prime banking market, it really feels like the more psychopathically someone behaves, the more it's rewarded.

I do believe in the viability of Indian spiritualism.

The chicken is gone but you can still smell it But its nothing like it was.

August creates as she slumbers, replete and satisfied.

I never accepted Communist dogma or theory.

It's very little trouble for me to accomodate my fans, unless I'm actually taking a pee at the time.

There's a lot of tension in London, but then you realize it's always been there, in its history, and that the best thing about London, that there's always been this tension.

For only by nurturing the minds and strengthening the values of our children can we give them an opportunity to be full, productive citizens, to reach their God-given potential, and to have good jobs right here in Oklahoma.

If Spain goes under, Italy will come under even more scrutiny.

I grew up doing martial arts, and I'm a second-degree black belt.

If you go to India the roads are being built almost entirely with private sector money and by the private sector. If you look at many, many countries in Europe that's how they're doing it.

This, then, is the test we must set for ourselves; not to march alone but to march in such a way that others will wish to join us.

No taste is so acquired as that for someone else's quality of mind.

The book I always say that influenced me, subconsciously, because at the time I didn't know I wanted to be a writer, was William Goldman's 'Marathon Man.' That was the first adult thriller that I loved. I read it when I was 15 or so, when my father gave it to me.

When I'm actually getting off the bus, I still have my gospel playing. That's the way-to-the-game kind of music.

I love the idea of leaving some of the original abstract thought in, because the problem is that when you pick up a pen you become a snob, your own worse critic. You edit yourself in a way that is non-creative.