I met my wife, Margaret L. Mack, at the University of Chicago. We were married in 1936. She died in 1970.

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

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.

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.

The grass is greener on the other side, but often this is just an illusion. Most probably, everyone is as unhappy as you.

Possible reality [is obtained] by slightly bending physical and chemical laws.

No one knows what you have been through or what your pretty little eyes have seen, but I can reassure you ~ whatever you have conquered, it shines through your mind.

I hope in time N. H. as well as the other States will feel the importance of Sovereignty.

Order is power.

The telephone will be used to inform people that a telegram has been sent.

To me, success is when you can walk into Ralph's and buy anything you want. Ultimate success, however, is when Ralph can walk into you and buy anything he wants.

I was born into big celebrity. It could only diminish.

If I showed you where I live, you would think that I was hiding

We love in others what we lack ourselves, and would be everything but what we are.