The last duty of a central banker is to tell the public the truth.

Life is not a multiple choice test, it's an open-book essay exam.

If you try to give an on-the-one-hand-or-the-other- hand answer, only one of the hands tends to get quoted.

Public opinion is presumptively an input to policy formation in a democracy because politicians respond to it or at least are believed to respond [to it].

There is a kind of a cascading chain, ... If one can't sell, then that business doesn't buy and that means the next business doesn't sell, and the previous business doesn't sell, and so on.

Tears never were worth the effort of crying them.

My life off the court has changed. I'm feeling good inside, so I guess it shows on the outside too.

All you can really do as director is sort of set a tone.

The government of the world I live in was not framed, like that of Britain, in after-dinner conversations over the wine.

It is not merely cruelty that leads men to love war, it is excitement.

I'd hate to see any film I'm involved in fail, especially artistically but also business-wise.

Just look at the Old Testament. They didn't go out with the army first. They sent the musicians out.

I make black and white prints because I want to go back to the beginning.

We are too apt to love praise, but not to deserve it.