It affects every aspect of our lives, is often said to be the root of all evil, and the analysis of the world that it makes possible - what we call 'the economy' - is so important to us that economists have become the high priests of our society. Yet, oddly, there is absolutely no consensus among economists about what money really is.
Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world.
Approaching life through '40 Chances' gives reasons to hope and actions to take, and it offers fresh approaches that our world desperately needs.
When I was a little girl, rocking my little dolls, I remember thinking I would be the world's best mom, and so far I've done it.
Kissing onscreen is the worst thing in the world. I'm OK with lovemaking scenes, but I hate kissing.
The creation of a world view is the work of a generation rather than of an individual, but we each of us, for better or for worse, add our brick to the edifice.
When the world is so complicated, the simple gift of friendship is within all of our hands.
Politics is the reflex of the business and industrial world.
It is the women who bring the men to this world: men are there because of women. It was my mother who brought me out of a health condition that threatened to usurp me completely. If we still treat women with disrespect, it is utterly shameful.
Nothing is more enjoyable for me than when I'm watching a movie or a TV show and there's that sense that anything can happen. It is the most fun feeling in the world.
Radio for years and years looked at the same pool of talent. I always believed there were other people in the world that could do radio shows.
We are rapidly approaching a world where everybody and everything will be connected and where all that connectivity will be bound together, acting with intelligence in a way that simplifies and improves people's lives.
I do not want to admit to the world that I can be a bad person. It is just that I don't want anyone to have false expectations. Moviemaking is a harsh, volatile business, and unless you can be ruthless, too, there's a good chance that you are going to disappear off the scene pretty quickly.
I believe without a single shadow of a doubt that it is necessary for young people to learn to make choices. Learning to make right choices is the only way they will survive in an increasingly frightening world.
Throughout the whole vegetable, sensible, and rational world, whatever makes progress towards maturity, as soon as it has passed that point, begins to verge towards decay.
I don't see gender when I look at the world.
What really matters is that you do what you think is right, what you believe in, and you surround yourself with the people you care about in this world. That's what counts in this life.
Clearly, there are many places where diesel is king or gas-turbine is king, or IC engines will win, but there are many places in the world where, as we've seen, they just won't do the job. The modern version of the Stirling engine has some very, very attractive characteristics, and we're trying to optimize it for some of those applications.
We all say, 'You don't have to run around playing all these tournaments and trying to conquer the world like Dr. Evil.'
And in a world without heroes, as the movie trailer voice-over guy might say, the slightly awkward can be slightly cool.
Moral certainty, clear standards, and a commitment to spiritual ideals will set you apart in a world that searches for meaning.
You must work - we must all work to make the world worthy of its children.
Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in.
Suffering is the positive element in this world, indeed it is the only link between this world and the positive.
I mean it's the most objective industry in the world. If your numbers stink, you're out. If your numbers are good, you get more money. It's the most Darwinian, it's beautiful, it's brutal, it works.
When you're talking with a person at this level of the government, at the very highest level, I think you have to be very discreet because he, President Clinton, is very aware that anything he says publicly can have a profound impact on American politics and on world politics.
I am not the richest, smartest or most talented person in the world, but I succeed because I keep going and going and going.
Our dreams are a second life. I have never been able to penetrate without a shudder those ivory or horned gates which separate us from the invisible world.
Approval or blame will follow in the world to come.
I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.
You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
Luckily, with 'The Collector' the first time around, it really took off in the DVD world and foreign, so it was just a pleasant surprise that a couple of years later there we were, doing it again.
If God had sufficient wisdom and power to construct such a beautiful world as this, then we must admit that his wisdom and power are immeasurably greater than that of man, and hence he is qualified to reign as king.
If we all had a little bit of Michael Jackson in us, I think it would make the world a better place.
Its highest point was The Worst Journey in the World. Then you see this decline, and this harking back, using the 19th-century form when we're not in the 19th century. That way of writing a book about the world out there - you just can't do it anymore.
I was interested in aerospace and flying, and the U.S. is really the best place in the world for flying.
