The Fed's independence is critical.

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.

True education makes you beautiful like a butterfly, but it demands a transformation.

Do we really need each other, or are we just covering up each other's loneliness?

I am in you and you in me, mutual in divine love.

Its almost scary how amateur I am when it comes to musicals - Im a musical goer, but I am not as obsessed with musicals as perhaps some of my theatrical friends are.

Universities are seminaries to produce Leftists

His heart kep' goin' pity-pat, But hern went pity-Zekle.

I've always felt a confidence in what I do from the simple fact that I know I represent my own life.

Physical circumstances have very little to do with either our capacity to love or to attract love.

Mathematics is for lazy people.

Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions.