Since I've become a central banker, I've learned to mumble with great incoherence. If I seem unduly clear to you, you must have misunderstood what I said.

I have found no greater satisfaction than achieving success through honest dealing and strict adherence to the view that, for you to gain, those you deal with should gain as well.

The need for values is inbred. Their content is not.

The number one problem in today's generation and economy is the lack of financial literacy.

I guess I should warn you, if I turn out to be particularly clear, you've probably misunderstood what I've said.

Protectionism will do little to create jobs and if foreigners retaliate, we will surely lose jobs.

Remember what we're looking at. Gold is a currency. It is still, by all evidence, a premier currency, that no fiat currency, including the dollar, can match.

When trust is lost, a nation's ability to transact business is palpably undermined.

In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation. There is no safe store of value.

Gold still represents the ultimate form of payment in the world. Fiat money in extremis is accepted by nobody. Gold is always accepted.

To succeed, you will soon learn, as I did, the importance of a solid foundation in the basics of education - literacy, both verbal and numerical, and communication skills.

You cannot wear every expectation. Consider putting aside one's that don't fit.

Some friend of yours, perhaps?""Except yourself I have none, " he answered. "I do not encourage visitors.

You and I are but specks of that rhythmic urge which is Brahma, which is Allah, which is God.

Nature delights in progress; in advance.

Most of the awesome people I know are just normal people who were insanely driven.

The budget acknowledges the importance of maintaining our ports and waterways to encourage commercial deep-draft navigation and economic competitiveness.

True feeling justifies whatever it may cost.

If you want God to act SUDDENLY then you’re gonna have to pursue him PATIENTLY!

Man is the only living being who has a developed self-awareness and death-awareness.

Every artist, true artist, struggles with an overwhelming sense of feeling like you're not worthy.