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

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.

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

The rich have markets, the poor have bureaucrats.

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.

Caius was one of those who gloried in his ignorance, called his lack of letters purity, scorned any subtlety of thought or expression. A man for his time, indeed.

I have ascended to the highest in me, and look, the Word is towering above that. I have descended to explore my lowest depths, and I found Him deeper still.

Someone told me that when they go to Vermont, they feel like they're home. I'm that way at Saks.

I like to use research to enlarge the poem. And sometimes a rhetorical or syntactical gesture stitches the poem along.

A-well-a, splish, splash, I forgot about the bath, I went and put my dancing shoes on.

If you stop struggling, then you stop life.

In solitude, when we are least alone.

Work is always my salvation and I will celebrate it.

If thou tastest a crust of bread, thou tastest all the stars and all the heavens.