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.

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.

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.

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.

The first rule in the book of love is acceptance.

There is no passion so much transports thesincerity of judgement as doth anger

Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life define yourself.

Nothing less than 7 inches.

I responded in what I thought was the most truthful, or least untruthful manner.

The scares are the easier part of scary movies. The hard part of scary movies is what leads up to the scares.

I cannot see what flowers are at my feet, Nor what soft incense hangs upon the boughs, But, in embalmed darkness, guess each sweet.

I was going to get the Carolyn Bessette story out of her one way or another.

I feel like there's no such thing as failure. When something doesn't go the way I want it to, I learn from it, and I accomplish more than I initially expected to.

The coaches who win are the ones who can motivate their players. Winning isn't everything, but the will to win is everything.