The lesson of history is that you do not get a sustained economic recovery as long as the financial system is in crisis.

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.

And now, I'm just trying to change the world, one sequin at a time.

It is too facile to say that the way to follow Tao is to simply go along with the flow of life. Sometimes, like the carp, we must know when to go it alone.

Thomas was sick of being accused of knowing things.

We win by tenderness. We conquer by forgiveness.

I know that life is really finding the right relationship between yourself and God.

Every father should remember one day his son will follow his example, not his advice.

But let us not forget that cities are like human beings. They are born, they go through childhood and adolescence, they grow old, and eventually they die

Look at those who have talked about you and doubted you. They are your inspirational reason to succeed.

The basketball skills I have, I've got because I work hard. When you work hard, I think you don't have to be afraid of anything.

I've always written very tightly, and there's a good reason for that. There's no point in using words that you're not going to apply.