I do know some of the world's richest people. In monetary terms, they all performed very well. In terms of a fulfilling life, I am less sure.
Balance in life is the key, as Aristotle taught us. Nobody likes a naive Pollyanna, but neither do we like to be around people who are constantly complaining and finding fault.
In 1968, the sanitation workers of Memphis tried to form a union. The city resisted. The Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. came to support them. That was where he lost his life.
As a club, we have an educational purpose: to give back to those people who love Arsenal so that they learn moral values from our game and how we behave.
Economists actually disagree about whether there are significant economic returns from attending an elite college versus a less-selective one.
Even if you are planning a birth with an epidural, the evidence suggests that a doula can help make things go much more smoothly.
There was free trade in Africa. There was free enterprise in Africa before the colonialists came.
Africa's salvation doesn't lie in begging and begging for more aid, and as an African, I find it very, very humiliating.
Just because a group does not take its decisions by voting does not mean they have no understanding of the essence of democracy.
Fines are preferable to imprisonment and other types of punishment because they are more efficient. With a fine, the punishment to offenders is also revenue to the State.
I find that the three major administrative problems on a campus are sex for the students, athletics for the alumni and parking for the faculty.
The man with the most guns survives the zombie apocalypse, but the man with the most books, locks the door and forgets it ever happened.
In 1972 I married again, to Elisabeth Case; she continues to be wife, companion, critic and editor: a partner in the projects and programs that we undertake.
People don't walk away from their homes unless they can't make the payments. That's an indication that we are in a recession.
As a matter of fact, an ordinary desert supports a much greater variety of plants than does either a forest or a prairie.
Across the continent, political divisions are deepening. For all of these reasons, the specter of a euro zone collapse has not been dispatched.
It would be curious to discover who it is to whom one writes in a diary. Possibly to some mysterious personification of one's own identity.
To escape the curse of commoditization, a company has to be a game-changer, and that requires employees who are proactive, inventive and zealous.
An enterprise that is constantly exploring new horizons is likely to have a competitive advantage in attracting and retaining talent.
As human beings, we are the genetic elite, the sentient, contemplating and innovating sum of countless genetic accidents and transcription errors.
Top-down authority structures turn employees into bootlickers, breed pointless struggles for political advantage, and discourage dissent.
