High levels of homeownership have been shown to foster greater involvement in school and civic organizations, higher graduation rates, and greater neighborhood stability.

Nobody likes to fail but failure is an essential part of life and of learning. If your uniform isn't dirty, you haven't been in the game.

It must be awfully frustrating to get a small raise at work and then have it all eaten by a higher cost of commuting.

The U.S. government has a technology, called a printing press (or, today, its electronic equivalent), that allows it to produce as many U.S. dollars as it wishes at essentially no cost.

The financial crisis appears to be mostly behind us, and the economy seems to have stabilized and is expanding again.

Monetary policy is not a panacea.

Monetary policy cannot do much about long-run growth, all we can try to do is to try to smooth out periods where the economy is depressed because of lack of demand

If you want to understand geology, study earthquakes. If you want to understand the economy, study the Depression.

Economics is a very difficult subject. I've compared it to trying to learn how to repair a car when the engine is running.

Economics is a highly sophisticated field of thought that is superb at explaining to policymakers precisely why the choices they made in the past were wrong. About the future, not so much.

If you are not happy with yourself, even the loftiest achievements won't bring you much satisfaction.

The inner light is the true soul of a man.

Tomorrow's freedom is today's surrender.

The show [ Too Much Tuna] changed a lot, actually, which is risky when you get positive critical feedback.

Don't become a well rounded person. Well rounded people are smooth and ull. Become a thoroughly spiky person.

I have a problem, if the light goes on on TV and it blinks midnight, I don't know how to fix it.

The rich pearl of life, Soon moulders in its blackened urn, the tomb.

To be connected to the real world is healthy and important.

The wonder is not that so much cacophony appears in our actual individual lives, but that there is any appearance of harmony and progression.

I like myself, but I won't say I'm as handsome as the bull that kidnapped Europa.

If they don't depend on true evidence, scientists are no better than gossips.