Our overriding goal in restructuring our financial architecture should be that taxpayers never again have to save a failing financial institution.

I'm a straightforward person. I like to be direct with people.

I don't see (subprime mortgage market troubles) imposing a serious problem. I think it's going to be largely contained.

It's a safe banking system, a sound banking system. Our regulators are on top of it. This is a very manageable situation.

There's always light at the end of the tunnel, right? It just depends on how long the tunnel is.

I never once considered that it was appropriate to put taxpayer money on the line in resolving Lehman Brothers.

In just about every area of society, there's nothing more important than ethics.

Economic growth and environmental protection are not at odds. They're opposite sides of the same coin if you're looking at longer-term prosperity.

Every global concern - economic, environmental or security-related - can be addressed more effectively when the U.S. and China work together.

Regulation needs to catch up with innovation.

When you have a big, ugly problem, there's never going to be a neat, elegant solution that is totally painless or without a cost.

I box in yellow Gox box socks.

I long ago abandoned myself to a blind lust for the written word. Literature is my sandbox. In it I play, build my forts and castles, spend glorious time.

May living your truth set you free!

Sam, had a great time this weekend but the golf was lousey.

I'm not like the Brexiteers. I don't deny that we have to permit immigration and the right of establishment for capital and services.

You should not really entertaining anyone else, but trying to be yourself, because there are already more good books than you or I could ever read in our lifetime.

The holy child is waiting to be born in every instant, not just once a year.

The Bible says that two cannot walk together unless they are agreed.

What a rude Lump our World is that we are so apt to dote upon.

Empowerment is the inner joy of knowing that external force isn't necessary to be at harmony with oneself.