Every pleasure you forgoe on Earth is a pleasure you won't get in heaven.

The complexity of economics can be calculated mathematically. Write out the algebraic equation that is the human heart and multiply each unknown by the population of the world.

Ideology, politics and journalism, which luxuriate in failure, are impotent in the face of hope and joy.

I like to do my principal research in bars, where people are more likely to tell the truth or, at least, lie less convincingly than they do in briefings and books.

The great thing about starting golf in your forties is that you can start golf in your forties. You can start other things in your forties but generally your wife makes you stop them, as Bill Clinton found out.

The whole idea of our government is this: If enough people get together and act in concert, they can take something and not pay for it.

Anyone who thinks he has a better idea of what's good for people than people do is a swine.