Economics is (now) about emotion and psychology.

In the longer run and for wide-reaching issues, more creative solutions tend to come from imaginative interdisciplinary collaboration.

It amazes me how people are often more willing to act based on little or no data than to use data that is a challenge to assemble.

The ability to focus attention on important things is a defining characteristic of intelligence.

Some of the best theorizing comes after collecting data because then you become aware of another reality.

Money management has been a profession involving a lot of fakery - people saying they can beat the market, and they really can't.

I am worried that the collapse of home prices might turn out to be the most severe since the Great Depression.

Consider our difficulties avoiding junk food and overspending. Such addictions were carefully planned-for by professional marketing teams.

Somehow, talking to young students brings you back to reality - it should, anyway.

Liberalism downplays certain of our moral senses: loyalty, authority, and sanctity.

Life's meaning heavily benefits from lifelong bonds.

Wisdom is the ability to ignore foolishness

Sacrifice is a noun in my vocabulary that should be a verb in my life.

When you have that window of opportunity called a crisis, move as quickly as you can, get as much done as you can. There's a momentum for change that's very compelling.

I was born in Mount Kisco, New York-although my family was living in the Bronx at the time. That's just where I decided to be born.

Self-esteem is made up primarily of two things: feeling lovable and feeling capable.

Baby, you are gonna miss that plane.

Man, like the universe, is a machine. Nothing enters our minds or determines our actions which is not directly or indirectly a response to stimuli beating upon our sense organs from without.

The future is sooner and stranger than you think.

Jump blind and you might find yourself on the rim of a raging volcano, or smack in the middle of a battlefield during a savage war, or on a swiftly tilting ice floe in a tempest-tossed sea.

The film business is absurd. Stars don't last very long. It's much more interesting to be a proper actor.