In many spheres of human endeavor, from science to business to education to economic policy, good decisions depend on good measurement.

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.

Every day send some blessings to the world. Let there be flow of love

It's simpler to live in a mindset of moving forward, than in a mindset of procrastination!

It was not that Madame Santeuil's moral values had altered, but only her view of the moral values of others.

The English instinctively admire any man who has no talent and is modest about it.

You are not your story. They are not your story about them. The world is not your story about the world.

You go to Pennsylvania, you go to Ohio, you go to Florida, you go to any of them. You go upstate New York. Our jobs have fled to Mexico and other places.

Have a purpose to your life: Purpose does not mean having a job...You can have a job and still be unfulfilled.

James Cameron's films have always been distinguished by ground-breaking technical excellence.

The worst thing you can do if you want to start a fight is to use derogatory terminology.

Strong communities ... embrace change. New discoveries require us to think differently and approach things differently, to think anew.