I continue to be a photographer; I have enjoyed fishing and hunting with a close friend; and have owned two ranches, first in northern California and then in the state of Washington.

To predict the future we would have to know today what we will learn tomorrow which will shape our future actions

My record at the University of California as an undergraduate was mediocre to say the best.

My early work and publications centered around expanding on the analysis of life insurance in my dissertation and its relationship to investment banking.

Our family life was certainly not intellectual.

It was not until I got my first job, at the University of Washington in Seattle, and began playing chess with Don Gordon, a brilliant young theorist, that I learned economic theory.

My brother and sister are both older than I am and were born before my father went off to World War I.

In 1972 I married again, to Elisabeth Case; she continues to be wife, companion, critic and editor: a partner in the projects and programs that we undertake.

What the war did was give me the opportunity of three years of continuous reading, and it was in the course of reading that I became convinced that I should become an economist.

I learned to fly an airplane, and had my own airplane during the 1960s.

I had hoped to go to law school, but the war started, and because of the strong feeling that I did not want to kill anybody, I joined the Merchant Marine when I graduated from Berkeley.

Patience includes perseverance—the ability to bear up under weariness, strain, and persecution when doing the work of the Lord.

don't believe on anything that someone asked you to believe in when in the first place they don't believe in.

A month before graduation I got an off-Broadway job. Then I did some commercials, including one for MCI. You can only see half of me, but it paid well. Thank God for commercials.

For some people, a park is the only place in their entire world where they can see something beautiful.

An important re-engineering principle is that companies should focus on their core competence and outsource everything else.

She is one of God's women fashioned by His own hand to show us men and other women that there is a heaven where we can enter, and that its light can be here on earth.

Faithfulness and sincerity first of all.

Nothing exists without a cause, the original cause of this universe we call God.

It takes great courage and personal strength to hold on to our center during times of great hurt. It takes wisdom to understand that our reactiveness only fans the flames of false drama.

Fear of trying causes paralysis. Trying causes only trembling and sweating.