Chancellor Angela Merkel and Wolfgang Schaeuble, her finance minister, are right to oppose fiscal and bank unions without political union.

What brought mass innovation to a nation was not scientific advances - its own or others' - but 'economic dynamism': the desire and the space to innovate.

I've lived to see key parts of my research absorbed in textbooks and in central banks around the world. And some finance ministries, too.

No amount of debt restructuring, even debt forgiveness, will help the Greeks achieve real prosperity. What they need is not short-term relief but, rather, a long-term cure.

[Louis Armstrong] was the only musician who ever lived, who can't be replaced by someone.

I've never been able to predict the future of anything.

I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me.

One of my first thoughts I had when I started considering the mastectomy was, 'What am I going to look like?' And then, 'What will my husband think?

I think Americans are wonderful film actors - the best in the world - but they are a very contemporary race and they look forward all the time.

If I dwell on what I don't want, then I will get more of it. I affirm only the good in Life.

Overall his period in office can only be characterised as a decade of missed opportunities in which the hopes of the British people for a new kind of politics were shattered [on Tony Blair]

Some seek fame cause they need validation, Some say hating is confused admiration.

I don't want my books to exclude anyone, but if they have to, then I would rather they excluded the people who feel they are too smart for them!

My body is a little bit sore from all of the practicing and playing and training