No economy can succeed without a high-quality workforce, particularly in an age of globalization and technical change.

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.

The person may have a scar, but it also means they have a story

Men were foolish and were made only so that they should die, while mountains and rivers went on for ever and did not notice the passing of time.

Loki's green eyes flashed with anger and with admiration, for he loved a good trick as much as he hated being fooled.

She who saves a single soul, saves the universe.

Peruse all the sermons of Jesus and you will be sure to find parables, and sometimes allegory. What you will always find, however, is something of keeping our hearts in order.

Guilt doesn’t stop you from doing something. It just stops you from enjoying it.

When I cook, my brain stops completely.

I think, when you are the prostitute... you don't want to be coming.

Once ignorance is weaponized, violence seems to be a tragic inevitability.

God uses every possible means to communicate with you.