If you can't stand the heat, don't go to Cancun in the summer.

Science should always be in the business of attempting to disprove itself.

It is inevitable that some defeat will enter even the most victorious life. The human spirit is never finished when it is defeated... it is finished when it surrenders.

My parents, products of the Great Depression, were successful people, but lived in a state of constant fear that my sister and I, and they, would sink into the kind of economic insecurity that their generation knew so well.

As Beverly Hills becomes more Iranian-Jewish, it is becoming politically conservative.

Screaming at children over their grades, especially to the point of the child's tears, is child abuse, pure and simple. It's not funny and it's not good parenting. It is a crushing, scarring, disastrous experience for the child. It isn't the least bit funny.

I'm an economist by training. I don't really work as an economist. I only worked briefly as an economist.