Globalization presumes sustained economic growth. Otherwise, the process loses its economic benefits and political support.

Good questions outrank easy answers.

An intriguing paradox of the 1990s is that it isn't called a decade of greed.

I don't care who writes a nation's laws - or crafts its advanced treaties - if I can write its economics textbooks.

Politicians like to tell people what they want to hear - and what they want to hear is what won't happen.

Macroeconomics, even with all of our computers and with all of our information - is not an exact science and is incapable of being an exact science.

What we know about the global financial crisis is that we don't know very much.

Every good cause is worth some inefficiency.

A growing nation is the greatest ponzi game ever contrived.

Profits are the lifeblood of the economic system, the magic elixir upon which progress and all good things depend ultimately. But one man's lifeblood is another man's cancer.

Investing should be more like watching paint dry or watching grass grow. If you want excitement, take $800 and go to Las Vegas.

Doubt isn't the opposite of faith

All that a child needs is great love.

Writers don’t get time off. Every moment - waking or sleeping - a writer is working, observing, thinking and creating.

Solitude is better than the society of evil persons.

Discontent, blaming, complaining, self-pity cannot serve as a foundation for a good future, no matter how much effort you make.

The one thing you share with every mortal is death.

I'd rather see a sermon than hear one any day; I'd rather one should walk with me than merely tell the way.

I mean, how can you not be a feminist if you have a brain in your head? If you’re not a feminist, then you’re a problem.

Even if I live not in a big city, even if I detest to go to parties, I love street fairs and long conversations with people in the countryside.

Without gradualness...we are back to a miracle.