One might as well try to perform brain surgery with a sledgehammer.

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.

We are one. Man, horse, lance, we are one beast of blood and wood and iron.

It is now and in this world that we must live.

Nothing twists and deforms the soul more than a low or unworthy conception of God

Desperation is the secret to my steady employment. I am not interested in downtime. I really like to keep working all the time and I always feel like I'm in the mail room of life; working up.

My definition of success is "the fulfillment of your soul's purpose."

Grab a brew... don't cost nothin'.

Luck often raises vulgarity to a high position, to create mirth for the beholders.

Far more money has been lost by investors preparing for corrections, or trying to anticipate corrections, than has been lost in corrections themselves.

Once there was a darkness, a deep and endless night, you gave me everything you had and oh, you gave me light

When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer 'Present' or 'Not guilty.'