There is always some chance of recession in any year. But the evidence suggests that expansions don't die of old age.

Listening to others, especially those with whom we disagree, tests our own ideas and beliefs. It forces us to recognize, with humility, that we don't have a monopoly on the truth.

I think it is appropriate to ask whether this trend is compatible with values rooted in our nation's history, among them the high value Americans have traditionally placed on equality of opportunity.

In the long run, outsourcing is another form of trade that benefits the U.S. economy by giving us cheaper ways to do things.

Strapped by tight credit and plummeting sales, businesses have overhauled the way they manage supply chains, inventory, production practices, and staffing.

If it were possible to take interest rates into negative territory I would be voting for that.

To me, a wise and humane policy is occasionally to let inflation rise even when inflation is running above target.

It slightly worries me that when people find a problem, they rush to judgment of what to do.

The past few decades of widening inequality can be summed up as significant income and wealth gains for those at the very top and stagnant living standards for the majority.

Will capitalist economies operate at full employment in the absence of routine intervention? Certainly not.

Long-term unemployment can make any worker progressively less employable, even after the economy strengthens.

Day after day, more and more medications are prescribed for depression and addiction, assuming that these things run in our blood, when really they run in our patterns of awareness.

There is no such thing as an infallible doctor.

Where the willingness is great the difficulties cannot be great.

No need to repent, no need to forgive - reverse 'evil' to live.

The Enlightenment is not a nightmare, nor is it something that comes easily to us. It is an aspiration - and a good one!

It's a very fascinating thing for an actor to play somebody who is suffering, and you have to express the suffering, but in an inarticulate way and sometimes a dysfunctional way, through violence.

It were no slight attainment could we merely fulfil what the nature of man implies.

It's not whether you won or lost, but how many bad-beat stories you were able to tell.

Pain comes from the darkness. And we call it wisdom. It is pain.

Oh, my Lolita, I have only words to play with!