As an economist, I'm aware that life is full of trade offs.

I think my wife would take objection to any characterization of me as perfect.

Disciplined governments do not engage in the economic equivalent of binge eating followed by crash dieting.

In Jamaica, you're never very far away from people who don't have very much, and in Wilmette, pretty much everybody had a lot.

You can actually make a lot of money and do a lot of good in the world. I don't see those things as being in opposition to one another. I never have.

I think that whether you're on the right or on the left as an economist or as a policy maker, every serious analyst I know agrees that at some point you have to deal with entitlements.

Fame changes everything. When you're well-known, you're expected to be different. Some people assume you must have a yacht and four homes. Or that you're famous because you are 'A Decent Man'.

Your deepest pain will be your most Glorious Blessing.

I have a European Fanclub that's based in Holland, and I had to have that President of the Fanclub to get me a number of recordings that I hadn't had the foresight to collect myself.

I wouldn't say I'm a very original thinker, but if I have a good experience with something, I'll want to take it further or adapt it in some way.

I've been an evangelistic Baptist all my life and still am to some degree.

Treasure the things about you that make you different and unique.

Once we considered education a public expense; we know now that it is a public investment.

A hungry man is not a free man. Freedom from hunger is a fundamental right. Without this freedom, such fundamental right cannot exist.

If you're not frustrated that you're not playing football then you shouldn't be playing football