Although I was not aware of it at the time, the experience of growing up during the Great Depression was to have a profound impact on my intellectual and professional career.

I, Lawrence Klein, was born in Omaha, Nebraska, as were my elder brother and younger sister.

During the early 1960s, I decided to supplement research support for quantitative economic studies at Pennsylvania by selling econometric forecasts to private and public sector buyers.

The completion of my undergraduate training at the University of California (Berkeley) provided just the needed touches of rigor at advanced levels in both economics and mathematics.

After my first visit to Japan, in 1960, to work on a joint model building project at Osaka University, I maintained a continuing interest in the country and the entire Far East.

An early fascination with higher mathematics at the university level blossomed into speculative thinking that could provide a basis for dealing with economic issues.

It came as a surprise to find that a professional society and journal (Econometrica) were flourishing, and I entered this area of study with great enthusiasm.

The SSRC committee turned attention from team research for building a model of the United States to doing one for world trade in order to investigate the international transmission mechanism.

These days you can't see who's in cahoots, Cause now the KKK wears three-piece suits.

Ideas have far-reaching consequences, and one must be ever so careful about what one allows to lodge in one's brain.

Was the earth put here just to nourish human loneliness?

The Methodists love your big sinners, as proper subjects to work upon.

As long as you have breath, someone needs your talents.

He that forgets his friend is ungrateful to him; but he that forgets his Saviour is unmerciful to himself.

Loss of empathy might well be the most enduring and deep-cutting scar of all, the silent blade of an unseen emey, tearing at our hearts and stealing more than our strength- Drizzt Do'Urden

It is good sometimes for poetry to disenchant us.

Man with frailty is allied by birth.

I was probably in the best shape of any athlete at the time, but you don't get to pass judgment on yourself.