The risk that the economy has entered a substantial downturn appears to have diminished over the past month or so.

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.

The only thing keeping you from living the life you want, is allowing your weaknesses to hold you back. So don't let anything hold you back from achieving your goals".

Holding onto negativity makes you sick, I strongly believe that. So I release negativity by writing.

I just tape four Tylenols to it.

Each day millions of our citizens approach our Maker on bended knee, seeking His grace and giving thanks for the many blessings He bestows upon us.

Women mostly remember the men who made them laugh, and men - only the women who made them cry.

I trust kids far more than I do adults. Kids give you the honest opinion. They tell the truth.

In the application of the method of non-violence, one must believe in the possibility of every person, however depraved, being reformed under humane and skilled treatment.

There was a weird, innate kind of understanding between me and Christina (Ricci). A psychic told us we were sisters in a past life.

When people find a man of the most distinguished abilities as a writer their inferior while he is with them, it must be highly gratifying to them.

If my hair gets any frizzier, I'll shave it to the scalp. Or light it on fire. Whichever is easier.