I think that whether you're on the right or on the left as an economist or as a policy maker, every serious analyst I know agrees that at some point you have to deal with entitlements.

I think my wife would take objection to any characterization of me as perfect.

As an economist, I'm aware that life is full of trade offs.

Disciplined governments do not engage in the economic equivalent of binge eating followed by crash dieting.

In Jamaica, you're never very far away from people who don't have very much, and in Wilmette, pretty much everybody had a lot.

You can actually make a lot of money and do a lot of good in the world. I don't see those things as being in opposition to one another. I never have.

It is only dogs that never bite their masters.

Eventually I knew what hair wanted; it wanted to be itself ... to be left alone by anyone, including me, who did not love it as it was.

Everything comes with hard work. You never get to stop working. I don't see myself ever getting comfortable enough to not have to worry about working.

Wordiness is a sickness of American writing. Too many words dilute and blur ideas.

If the blind put their hands in God's, they find their way more surely than those who see but have not faith or purpose.

Every object tells a story if you know how to read it.

A great work always leaves us in a state of musing.

Jesus removes all that is superfluous & unclean from our prayers, & adds His perfection, beauty & fragrance to them!

My mother's life had been destroyed by the Garland legend.

The thing is, in English I'm able to write the lyrics as I'm making the song, once I'm done with the melody.