Caltech was a meat grinder like I could never have imagined.

In 1941 I finished at Allison Intermediate School (grades 7-9), and started at North High School, commuting by bicycle about 5 miles from home to school.

I can still memory - taste the fresh buttermilk pancakes and hot buttermilk biscuits - both made with lard! - that were cooked on the top, or in the oven, of that ancient iron stove.

After graduating in engineering I went to the University of Kansas to get an MA in economics as a vehicle for allowing me to decide if I wanted to continue in economics.

In the 9th grade I began my first wage work for the West Side Drug store delivering prescriptions and sundries on my bicycle to customers who called in orders.

I gradually became persuaded that the subjects, without intending to, had revealed to me a basic truth about markets that was foreign to the literature of economics.

After my stellar first grade academic achievements, I continued to perform well in the city primary schools - except for penmanship, which was not my forte.

Caltech was a meat grinder like I could never have imagined.

I still have my original social security card signed when I was 13.

Yes, long hours and a hard life for my parents, but for a six to seven year old every new day dawned with fresh excitement when you have not a care in the world, and so much to learn and witness.

If you don't belong somewhere, that outsider status you have gives you perspective. Of course, another word for outsider is 'exile,' and that's not fun at all.

There are no countries in the world less known by the British than those selfsame British Islands.

I usually go for the ethnic ladies. That's kinda my preference, but I don't discriminate.

A man may not always be what he appears to be, but what he appears to be is always a significant part of what he is.

The irony of the Supreme Court hearing on these cases last week and of the outright hostility that the Court has displayed against religion in recent years is that above the head of the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court is a concrete display of the Ten Commandments.

I think that the press has a duty and an obligation to report on local government, state government, federal government - to be aggressive, to do its job. And its job is to report on whatever it's covering.

All my life my priority was football, football, football. I was just fully focused on that and when my kids were born that focus changed gradually. I had something in my life that changed my perspective. You experience something that is more important than win, lose or draw.

When you dare me to do something, I will say, 'Watch me'. That is what I say to critics. 'Watch me'.

Don't ever play yourself.

The amount of times my wife has rolled her eyes at board games is impossible to count.

I was reared in a Jehovah's Witness household. I was taught that every man should be judged by his deeds and not his color, and I firmly stand where my grandmother left me.

What I don't underestimate is everybody's deal is different and everybody's deal makes it difficult. And so it is incumbent upon employers to create flexible work environments that allow people to fulfill their professional and personal lives in a way that works for themselves.

This is the year of Katrina and Iraq. How the war ends is more important than how it began. However you feel about the war, you have to be compassionate and loving towards our troops.

In its beginnings, music was merely chamber music, meant to be listened to in a small space by a small audience.

That's what I'd like to do on the President's Council. Make sports and athletics available to every youth in America, not just one day a week like it was for me, but every day.

I don't know if I'm very complicated at all. I wish I was. I wish I was one of these deep, intricate people. But I just love having fun really.

An inspiring word for me is to think of myself as limitless.

A good puzzle, it's a fair thing. Nobody is lying. It's very clear, and the problem depends just on you.

I think it is definitely right to listen to the Party and follow up government's instructions.

I think that's one of the most important gifts we have in television - the ability to heal through laughter.

For me, democracy must deliver a better life for the people.

Agnostic for me would be trying to weasel out and sound a little nicer than I am about this.

Well the first thing I'd say is that I'm not sure exactly what I'm supposed to do to show my remorse other than to say that I'm remorseful.

Marriage is really tough because you have to deal with feelings ... and lawyers.