I'd throw dollars out of helicopters if I had to, to stimulate the economy.

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 man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and all time.

Faith is not about finding meaning in the world, there may be no such thing -- faith is the belief in our capacity to create meaningful lives.

Our loved ones are always with us whether they are of the flesh or of the spirit.

I am the master of my mind. I dwell on positive thoughts.

I like the mentality of the Americans. It's like when you talk about money.

It's hard when you're doing a film based on a true story to really figure out what all those relationships were.

Just like all great stories, our fears focus our attention on a question that is as important in life as it is in literature: What will happen next?

I'm going to be a superstar musician, kill myself, and go out in a flame of glory.

A lot of coaching is about results and if you don't get the right results, you're going to get criticism, but if all things are going well then you can enjoy yourself.

One-third of the people in the United States promote, while the other two-thirds provide.