We need a revolution in development thinking and practice. Foreign aid, debt relief, family planning, democracy, education, and free markets have not succeeded.

Remember, aid cannot achieve the end of poverty. Only homegrown development base on the dynamism of individuals and firms in free markets can do that.

The rich have markets, the poor have bureaucrats.

When you are in a hole, the top priority is to stop digging.

To escape the cycle of tragedy, we (searchers) have to be tough on the ideas of the planners, even while we salute their goodwill.

Economists did something even better than predict the crisis. We correctly predicted that we would not be able to predict it.

If there is one number to which the rights of millions will be happily sacrificed, it is the national GDP growth rate.

Any factor that breeds polarization will worsen policy, and thus cause lower growth.

... money should not be spent according to what the West considers the most dramatic kind of suffering.

We are all poets, really.

Before she continued her search she sat in his revolving desk chair, and wept for the passing of time, and the necessary death of the well-loved, wise old man.

Why does it hurt so much? Why does it have to hurt?

Pope Francis is going to go to Washington, D.C., to address Congress. He believes the New England Patriots have been deflating his giant hat.

The only way to get out of mediocrity is to keep shooting for excellence.

You might be a redneck if you're turned on by a woman who can field dress a deer.

We do not know, in most cases, how far social failure and success are due to heredity, and how far to environment. But environment is the easier of the two to improve.

I'm a genius. I'm like Prince.

For me, prayer is not so much me setting out a shopping list of requests for God to consider as it is a way of keeping company with God.

The best thing about giving of ourselves is that what we get is always better than what we give. The reaction is greater than the action.