You can't get something for nothing. Everybody remembers this except politicians.

Tabasco sauce is to bachelor cooking what forgiveness is to sin.

I wonder if it changes the nature of a society for beauty to be so common. Maybe in Vietnam "She has a wonderful personality" really means something. But I couldnt figure out a polite way to ask.

You can learn all about the human condition from covering the crime beat in a big city - you don't need to go to Beirut for that - but a foreign correspondent begins to understand poverty from a different perspective.

A dugout is much superior to a conventional manufactured canoe because you can get soaking wet without bothering to capsize it.

Predicting innovation is something of a self-canceling exercise: the most probable innovations are probably the least innovative.

It is important to remember when reading Adam Smith or even when just thinking about Smith that the era that he lived in, we're not talking about poverty in a day when it meant not enough bedrooms for the kids, an old car, a black and white television. We're talking about a whole world where poverty meant not enough to eat.