If you try to give an on-the-one-hand-or-the-other- hand answer, only one of the hands tends to get quoted.

Life is not a multiple choice test, it's an open-book essay exam.

The last duty of a central banker is to tell the public the truth.

Public opinion is presumptively an input to policy formation in a democracy because politicians respond to it or at least are believed to respond [to it].

There is a kind of a cascading chain, ... If one can't sell, then that business doesn't buy and that means the next business doesn't sell, and the previous business doesn't sell, and so on.

Praise becomes compulsory when we experience true intimacy [with God].

I don't think virtue has a downside. I think human nature does.

The wonderful thing about the black church for me is that it forces you to come to terms with the centrality of love in the world.

Whoever is gripped by God's spirit turns to his creation with all the interest that comes from God's love.

The brutality that can take place in a crime film heightens the tenderness that can also be there.

If you want the best results in an organization, you must rely solely on merit.

I couldn't be in a relationship without equality, generosity, integrity, spirit, kindness and humor. And awesomeness.

Its better to live a goat than 100 sheep.

When graves are covered with stones, the dead can no longer get out. But the dead can't go out anyway! What difference does it make whether they're covered with soil or stones?

Well, I can wear heels now.