Now that we all agree contraception is a bad idea, let's take a harder look at electricity and soap..

I want to disabuse people of the idea that knowledge is power. Knowing how to get to Detroit is not the same thing as having the bus fare..

It is exciting to hear one of your fondest ideas formulated in one fell swoop, better than you could have done yourself..

During the Middle Ages there were all kinds of crazy ideas, such as that a piece of rhinoceros horn would increase potency. Then a method was discov….

Ideas came with explosive immediacy, like an instant birth. Human thought is like a monstrous pendulum; it keeps swinging from one extreme to the oth….

People who read my books have an open mind when it comes to new, bizarre, interesting and exciting ideas..

When a candidate for public office faces the voters he does not face men of sense; he faces a mob of men whose chief distinguishing mark is the fact ….

You never suffer from a money problem, you always suffer from an idea problem..

MANY MANAGE TO SEPARATE THEIR LIFE FROM THEIR FILMS. THEY LIVE ONE WAY AND EXPRESS OTHER IDEAS IN THEIR WORKS. THEY ARE ABLE TO SPLIT THEIR CONSCIENC….

Market bashers ... might understand the claim that in some particular field, markets required no intervention--though they'd be skeptical--but the no….

A great deal more failure is the result of an excess of caution than of bold experimentation with new ideas. The frontiers of the Kingdom of God were….

All my economic ideas as developed over twenty-five years can be summed up in the words: agricultural-industrial federation. All my political ideas b….

First feel sure of idea, then the execution will be easier..

People are more interested in ideas than dress..

The idea seemed to be that if you prayed extremely hard--especially if a lot of people prayed at once--maybe God would change things. The trouble was….

We're dealing with music that is being played by traditional instruments in a specifically built building called a concert hall. But classical is not….

It is perfectly possible to be a professional director or a professional writer and not to be an artist: merely a sort of executor of other people's ….

I always tell people I write songs, but I'm a writer. It's a difference. I can write songs to music, but I can write a story. I can see ideas spark i….

What I'm identifying with is the vision or the idea - whatever was the little nugget that started it..

The newspapers are the cemeteries of ideas..

The gospel is never about everybody else; it is always about you, about me. The gospel is never truth in general; it's always a truth in specific. Th….