Mathematics brought rigor to economics. Unfortunately it also brought mortis.

Anyone who believes exponential growth can go on forever in a finite world is either a madman or an economist.

A world of unseen dictatorship is conceivable, still using the forms of democratic government.

Economics has been incurably growth-oriented and addicted to everybody growing richer, even at the cost of exhaustion of resources and pollution of the environment.

Equilibrium is a figment of the human imagination.

Theories without facts may be barren, but facts without theories are meaningless.

We should always bear in mind that numbers represent a simplification of reality.

DNA has been aptly described as the first three-dimensional Xerox machine.

The world moves into the future as a result of decisions, not as a result of plans. Plans are significant only insofar as they affect decisions.

If we saw tomorrow's newspaper today, tomorrow would never happen.

There is no such thing as economics, only social science applied to economic problems.

Enlightenment must come little by little - otherwise it would overwhelm.

It was the hubris of each generation to think this anew, to think that their time was special, that all things would come to an end with them.

I'm on the road so much that I don't get to spend as much time there as I would like.

You try for a little happiness, and what do you get? A few memories and a fat stomach!

Intimate, loving, and enduring relationships with our family and close friends will be among the sources of the deepest joy in our lives.

The ban on assault weapons has decreased gun violence in Baltimore not one iota. That's because few, if any, of the shootings were done with assault weapons.

The problems seem so easy out there on the stump. Deficits shrink with a rhetorical flourish.

If you want to achieve great things, you need to have a great dream.

My passions have never jumped out of the fireplace and set fire to the carpet.

Thinking of what Jesus did NOT say from the cross: not a bitter, angry, unkind, whining, profane, unnecessary word. There is none like Him!