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People frequently ask me why I devote so much time to seeking out facts about man’s past…the past shows clearly that we all have a common origin and that our differences in race, colour and creed are only superficial.
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Yet, in 1850 nearly all the railroads in the United States lay east of the Mississippi River, and all of them, even when they were physically mere extensions of one another, were separately owned and separately managed.
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In truth, women are the strong ones.
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As a standup comedian, I've worked almost every New Year's Eve of my adult life. It's the best-paying night of the year.
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The essence of politics is to direct oneself to the group which wields power
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I think we have a fascinating new and quite dominant input into politics - and it wont go away. From time to time, people articulate a view that we should ban opinion polls, but that's nonsense.
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Every trait of beauty may be traced to some virtue, as to innocence, candor, generosity, modesty, and heroism.
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When my father would yell at me, I told myself someday I'd use it in a book.
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I read anything that’s going to be interesting. But you don’t know what it is until you’ve read it. Somewhere in a book on the history of false teeth there’ll be the making of a novel.
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People share a universal behavioural trait: if there are profits to be made, the effort to get that money will attract investment. This is true in the private sector, the market sector, as well as the public sector.
