Finance is not merely about making money. It's about achieving our deep goals and protecting the fruits of our labor. It's about stewardship and, therefore, about achieving the good society.

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.

Economics is (now) about emotion and psychology.

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.

Hope is a dream of which we long to have. Don't let anyone ever tell you that you can't hope for something because hope brings joy and joy brings happiness and its all tied up in a big ball of love.

The gut is the seat of all feeling. Polluting the gut not only cripples your immune system, but also destroys your sense of empathy, the ability to identify with other humans.

Everything shall pass way, only books will remain.

I listen to my old records and I think, 'How did I ever get on the radio?'

Oh, rather give me commentators plain, Who with no deep researches vex the brain; Who from the dark and doubtful love to run, And hold their glimmering tapers to the sun.

I'd be the first person to say I can't write dialogue. My dialogue is very utilitarian and is designed to move things forward. I'm not Shakespeare. It's not designed to be poetic.

Models are there to look like mannequins, not like real people. Art and illusion are supposed to be fantasy.

Life's major challenge: getting reborn often enough.

On snowboarding as an Olympic sport: Since I was 6 years old I've been in the mix and watching this grow and change. I never would have expected it to go this far.

You never really know a man until you have divorced him.