It takes about two and a half percent growth just to keep unemployment stable.

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.

If there were two enemies hating each other for a long time, to me, the winner would be the one who finally has the courage to forgive.

We can cry for years but sometimes gotta smile too.

Two of my three siblings are older, so I suppose I learned from them and became a very avid reader at a young age, which I think enough cannot be said for what you can discover through literature.

How could I pretend to be someone else when I was already failing at being the person I already was?

I listened to my record and hear lots of influences. And it's very rich... it's got a wide spectrum.

For just when ideas fail, a word comes in to save the situation.

Art is as natural as sunshine and as vital as nourishment.

Love withers under constraints: its very essence is liberty: it is compatible neither with obedience, jealousy, nor fear.

I didn't even understand the whole idea of Hollywood.

Usually [the lyrics] go from one word to the next word - there's no finish line. The music was that way, too.