If Wall Street crashes, does Main Street follow? Not necessarily.

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.

Suffering makes a man to seek for his Saviour.

Man is by instinct a lover, a hunter, a fighter.

There are so many random questions in life, but the important ones harldy have a random answer.

A rhododendron bud lavender-tipped. Soon a glory of blooms to clash with the cardinals and gladden the hummingbirds!

A gentleman doesn't kiss and tell

Your thinking, more than anything else, shapes the way you live. It's really true that if you change your thinking, you can change your life.

The aim of the liar is simply to charm, to delight, to give pleasure. He is the very basis of civilized society.

Some of those more out-there jokes were written in the wee hours of the morning. Somehow, they remained funny the next day.

This one’s easy to use. The pointy end goes into their body. (Liza)

It is the direction and not the magnitude which is to be taken into consideration.