If you are not happy with yourself, even the loftiest achievements won't bring you much satisfaction.

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.

Nobody really understands gold prices and I don't pretend to understand them either.

Your success and significance in life is tied to the unleashing of the greatness in you.

In the past, I'll admit, I've enjoyed being compared to the protagonists in my screenplays.

A concern with 'public morality' is - if not the last refuge of a scoundrel - the first foray of the fascist.

At times I felt that the universe fabricated from the power of the imagination had stronger and more lasting contours than the blurred realm of the flesh-and-blood creatures around me.

Well, I get under people's skins. It's a gift I have, what can I say?

I am almost six-novels-old. It took me until the third novel to call myself a writer.

By that time [1966], we did begin to get some protests [against Vietnam War]. But not from liberal intellectuals; they never opposed the war.

Think globally, act locally.

I just want to thank [my wife] for loving me where I was weak.

A dream ignored is like a letter unopened.