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

The successful people of this world take life as it comes. They just go out and deal with the world as it is.

It's amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions.

The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want.

When I seemed to be irritable or sad, my father would quote the learned Dr. Knight, and then say, 'Just go to sleep.' Like all smart aleck kids, I thought the advice was silly. But as I've grown older, I've realized just how smart Knight was.

The America that we knew as the smartest place on the planet is gone with the wind.

I am about to vote. I am about to do something that human beings are rarely allowed to do. I am doing something that did not exist until America.