There've been times where I wondered whether it was worth continuing in my own education.

Well, a deficit reflects an imbalance between spending and revenue, and so narrowing it requires acting on one, the other or both.

Every day is like that, eight successive meetings on eight different topics, every one really important and interesting.

Something that's unsustainable, like a dysfunctional relationship, can go on longer than you expect, and then end faster and messier than you think.

Well, I think what we need to remember is that budget deficits can impede economic activity.

It is a foregone opportunity that we could have a trillion dollars more of income for the United States if we were producing at capacity rather than falling so far short of it.

Social Security faces a long-term actuarial deficit, yes.

My mom is a very warm, typical sort of Jewish-mother type. And my dad has a somewhat, um, different personality.

Total borrowing has imploded. Private borrowing has collapsed. And, in effect, the Treasury Department is the last borrower left standing.

For example, I was privileged to be working at the White House under the Clinton administration and had not finished my Ph.D., and I thought I was the cat's meow.

When you use Cosmic Ordering you will move from cloud nine to cloud ten.

It's an irony of our times that men seeking peace must make war.

If you have confidence you have patience. Confidence, that is everything.

The great thing about life - I'd rather not know and just hope I'm happy and healthy and I feel as good about my life as I do now.

I'm curious about people. That's what I've always done since I've been a small boy. I'm curious about others.

Writing is something you'll never learn in any university or at any school. It's something that is within you, and if it isn't there, nothing can put it there.

Dogs wait for us faithfully.

I am a huge fan of proselytizing. I am a huge fan of speaking your mind. The only way we can share the universe... is by talking very strongly about what we believe.

Education in my family was not merely emphasized, it was our raison d'etre.

Paradise was made for tender hearts; hell, for loveless hearts.