“You’ll see, you’ll come to understand. These big things, these terrible things, are not the important ones. If they were, how could one go on living? No, it is the small, little things that make up a day, that bring fullness and happiness to a life.”

When little things are so important, it’s because there aren’t any big ones.

But death does not stand at the end of life, it is all through it. It is the fear of losing, the knowledge of losing that makes love tender.

Such is the cost of immortality. No person is whole. No person is free. Over time, some have determined that the only way to live is to die. In death, a man or a woman is free of the weight of the past [and the future].

It is fair to say that the universe is the ultimate free lunch.

The recent developments in cosmology strongly suggest that the universe may be the ultimate free lunch.

It keeps interest rates lower than they otherwise would be and frees savings to finance increases in the capital stock, thereby boosting productivity and real incomes.

I don’t think it’s possible for the Fed to end its easy-money policies in a trouble-free manner.

The free lunch has still to be invented.

I’m all in favour of free expression provided it’s kept rigidly under control.

So the experts think we could have an AIDS-free generation in Africa by 2015, even if the mothers are positive.