In the short run and for decisions unlikely to have broad impact, it may be more cost effective to use just one expert.

In the longer run and for wide-reaching issues, more creative solutions tend to come from imaginative interdisciplinary collaboration.

It amazes me how people are often more willing to act based on little or no data than to use data that is a challenge to assemble.

The ability to focus attention on important things is a defining characteristic of intelligence.

Some of the best theorizing comes after collecting data because then you become aware of another reality.

Money management has been a profession involving a lot of fakery - people saying they can beat the market, and they really can't.

Economics is (now) about emotion and psychology.

I am worried that the collapse of home prices might turn out to be the most severe since the Great Depression.

Consider our difficulties avoiding junk food and overspending. Such addictions were carefully planned-for by professional marketing teams.

Somehow, talking to young students brings you back to reality - it should, anyway.

Liberalism downplays certain of our moral senses: loyalty, authority, and sanctity.

Hi ladies, Hi Girls..., If you don't add more knowledge to what you already know, you may be a virgin but may not raise your bar! Go, get extra oil!

There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.

I really believed that fear is contagious.

If we incline too much to democracy, we shall soon shoot into a monarchy.

I was born at six months, and I weighed 900 grams [less than two pounds]. I have a very heroic birth story.

The table is the only place where we do not get weary during the first hour.

People are always vulnerable when they're happy.

Know that you yourself are a miracle.

I would love to be in the Hall Of Fame.

the problems of the human heart in conflict with itself which alone can make good writing because only that is worth writing about, worth the agony and the sweat