People talk about 'getting rid of the old image' and I guess there's some merit in that. But the truth is that people loved 'The Wonder Years' - I can't turn my back on it.

It is the merit of a general to impart good news and to conceal the truth.

If you wish in this world to advance your merits you're bound to enhance You must stir it and stump it and blow your own trumpet Or trust me you haven't a chance.

You know I believe that technology is the great leveler. Technology permits anybody to play. And in some ways I think technology - it's not only a great tool for democratization but it's a great tool for eliminating prejudice and advancing meritocracies.

In America as opposed to the old country success was based on merit.

I am willing to compete on my merits and on my character - not with the color of my skin. We talk about being a color-blind society but I don't think the political process could actually handle that.

In science 'fact' can only mean 'confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent.' I suppose that apples might start to rise tomorrow but the possibility does not merit equal time in physics classrooms.

We're in such a volatile climate right now politically. I think they didn't want Assassins to not succeed due to popular opinion and politics versus on its own merits. I can respect that.

I am sure that on the one hand the Rothschilds appreciate the merits of Marx and that on the other hand Marx feels an instinctive inclination and a great respect for the Rothschilds.

The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable for the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit.