Speaking as somebody who has been happily married for 35 years, I can't imagine any choice more consequential for a lifelong journey than the choice of a traveling companion.

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.

Just because you discover that you may like somebody after all, it doesn't necessarily mean there's any attraction.

It is not you as the ego who moves through life, but that life flows before you, and you are the immutable awareness containing it all.

Life, like classical music, is full of difficult passages that are conquered as much through endurance and determination as through any particular skill.

Ghost Hampton" took me years to write -- but it won't take you that long to read!

Read what you like, not what you're told to like. That way you'll read for a lifetime.

Feeling good about your life, but not expressing a heartfelt 'thank you,' is like wrapping a gift for someone and never giving it to them.

I learned that realism can come in all shapes and sizes. The world is big enough for different values to coexist.

The first half was end-to-end stuff. In contrast, in this second half it's been one end to the other.

The heads of leading American universities say that if they selected applicants based on grades alone, their student bodies would be 100 percent Asian.

I think it's a lot harder when you're opening. You really have to win people over.