I attended schools in Seattle through the University of Washington, from which I was graduated in 1931. I spent the next year at Northwestern University.

...it is distressing how often one can guess the answer given to an economic question merely by knowing who asks it.

The main insight learned from interdisciplinary studies is the return to specialization

Competition is a tough weed, not a delicate flower.

There is only one social science and we are its practitioners

If you never miss a plane, you’re spending too much time at the airport.

My teaching began in 1936 at Iowa State College where T. W. Schultz was the department chairman.

I recall my mother asking in about 1946 what I was and I replied proudly that I was a professor. A decade later she repeated her question and I repeated my answer. "No promotion?" was her comment.

Theories are not rejected by cirsumstantial evidence: it takes a theory to beat a theory.

It was in the 1960s that I began the detailed study of public regulation.

All great economists are tall. There are two exceptions: John Kenneth Galbraith and Milton Friedman.

Appreciate all the wonderful things in life

As a child, I was this record collector/listener that would sit in a room and listen to the entire Beatles catalog alone, over and over and over again.

We live together, we act on, and react to one another; but always, and in all circumstances, we are by ourselves.

Only the human figure exists; landscape is, and should be, no more than an accessory; the painter exclusively of landscape is nothing but a bore.

Many yet are the secret truths of God which will be unfolded as they are needed.

As we speak cruel time is fleeing. Seize the day, believing as little as possible in tomorrow.

To do the writing, I have to have time to do research.

Psychology is a bus that accompanies an airplane.

What we celebrate at Christmas is not so much the birth of a baby, but the incarnation of God Himself

The young and the ambitious share a common risk: appearing naive.