Money never remains just coins and pieces of paper. Money can be translated into the beauty of living, a support in misfortune, an education, or future security.

Invest in yourself, in your education. There's nothing better.

Beware of the danger signals that flag problems: silence, secretiveness, or sudden outburst.

One of the soundest rules to remember when making forecasts in the field of economics is that whatever is to happen is happening already.

I've learned ruthless concentration. I can write under any circumstances...street noises, loud talk, music, you name it.

The average family exists only on paper and its average budget is a fiction, invented by statisticians for the convenience of statisticians.

Money can be translated into the beauty of living.

I've always been independent, and I don't see how it conflicts with femininity.

I worked up a daily fury about some economic injustice because there were so many of them.

I am not and should not be considered an economist.

I had always assumed that people were interested in economic affairs, just as I was. My assumption was justified. The times caught up with me. I was ready. I was there.

Peace is not the absence of war but the absence of fear.

It started with feelings of jealousy and like a mental virus it spread.

We're all looking for a peaceful and safe place, but maybe there is no such place. But we keep going no matter what's waiting for us down the road. We don't stop living.

And, instead of pelting these babbling idiots with their own freshly toasted marshmallows, everyone else sitting around the fire is often nodding and smiling and looking solemny thoughtful.

Historians relate not so much what is done as what they would have believed.

In a new interview, Secretary of State Colin Powell repeated that the U.S. has no plans to attack Syria or Iran. After hearing this Donald Rumsfeld responded, 'Like he'd know.'

I wrote the first draft of my first novel at Michigan, and then I wrote the first draft of 'Salvage the Bones' at Stanford. So I workshopped the entire thing.

Short shrift is made of the Jews in all eastern occupied areas. Tens of thousands of them are liquidated.

Most Americans are on a downward escalator. Median wage in the United States, adjusted for inflation, keeps on dropping.

The Administration of the United States is such dread I almost feel paralyzed.