What brought mass innovation to a nation was not scientific advances - its own or others' - but 'economic dynamism': the desire and the space to innovate.

I've lived to see key parts of my research absorbed in textbooks and in central banks around the world. And some finance ministries, too.

Chancellor Angela Merkel and Wolfgang Schaeuble, her finance minister, are right to oppose fiscal and bank unions without political union.

No amount of debt restructuring, even debt forgiveness, will help the Greeks achieve real prosperity. What they need is not short-term relief but, rather, a long-term cure.

I was a happy kid up until I hit the teen years.

Courage and willingness to just go for it, whether it is a conversation or a spontaneous trip or trying new things that are scary - it is a really attractive quality.

It is not knowing, but the love of learning, that characterizes the scientific man.

I used to watch dailies and felt I had to keep on top of the character, but I don't feel that any more.

The way to infinite joy is through the elimination of desire, - no attachments, no aversions.

I have to get up the fitness level, sing a lot, practice, get in the mood, and generally do lots of rehearsal. Get your body and mind ready.

There's one thing that the Fed has been really good at cracking down on, and that's inflation.

In general, we mean by any concept nothing more than a set of operations; the concept is synonymous with the corresponding set of operations.

I used to be a great blues singer.

Happiness, not in another place but this place...not for another hour, but this hour.