If you're in a car crash, you're mostly involved in trying to not go off the bridge, and later on you say, 'Oh my God!'

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.

Your voice is wild and simple. You are untranslatable Into any one tongue.

Most people just laugh when they hear that the secret to success is giving. Then again, most people are nowhere near as successful as they wish they were.

I discovered Christopher Isherwood in college. His writing style is so direct, warm, and inclusive.

Don't hoard the past. Don't cherish anything. Burn it. The artist is the phoenix who burns to emerge.

Nothing profits more than self-esteem, grounded on what is just and right.

A movie isn't a political movement, a party or even an article. It's just a film. At best it can add its voice to public outrage.

The law of God cannot be fulfilled by external obedience.

Truth knows no color; it appeals to intelligence.

Music is the universal language.

We can open our hearts to God, but only with Divine help.