The great use of life is to spend it for some thing that overlasts it.

真相常常比小说更离奇，但小说是我们找到真相的地方。

The role of the economist is part scientist, part engineer.

The only way to do great work is to love what you do.

The challenge of our time is to find balance in a world of constant connectivity.

Our heroes are human heroes. That's a very new situation. Most other societies have had, right at their center, the worship of something transcendent: a god, a spirit, a natural force, the universe, whatever it is -- something else that is being worshiped. We've slightly lost the habit of doing that, which is, I think, why we're particularly drawn to nature.