I think investing in a good education has been key for me, although the investment was more in time than money.

The gains from technology must be channeled to a broader base of the population than has benefited so far.

In the history of modern capitalism, crises are the norm, not the exception.

I am not going to say I told you so, but I did.

The global financial crisis - missed by most analysts - shows that most forecasters are poor at pricing in economic/financial risks, let alone geopolitical ones.

You have to eventually nationalize US banks, you have to take the problem by the horns. In my view actually most of the US banking system is insolvent.

I think it's true that the 1 Percent or the elite are living in a world of, maybe, excessive privilege, and they don't fully realize how much pain and suffering, how much anxiety exists out there.

We're essentially continuing a system where profits are privatized and...losses socialized.

Once you run current-account deficits, you depend on the kindness of strangers. This might be the beginning of the end of the American empire.

Technology is spurring innovation, and the so-called "demographic dividend" has brought change.

Gold has no increasing value. And if you're really worried about, say, inflation rising, I would buy Spam. You know, you can eat Spam. You cannot eat gold.

The Lethean Library, for all its incalculable volumes, is, I know, sadly incomplete without Mr. Goodman's effort.

If you resolve to give up smoking drinking and loving you don't actually live longer it just seems longer.

Experience is the best of schoolmasters only the school-fees are heavy.

The greatest blessing of our democracy is freedom. But in the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.

Every contact you make with everyone you meet will help them or hinder them on their journey to heaven.

It won't mean you're weak if you turn the other cheek.

I'm always having to be told to brush my hair.

At present scientists do not look for alternatives simply because they do not care enough about the animals they are using.

Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.

Revival precedes evangelism. The church must first repent. This is the blind spot in our eye today.