I am worried that the collapse of home prices might turn out to be the most severe since the Great Depression.

In the longer run and for wide-reaching issues, more creative solutions tend to come from imaginative interdisciplinary collaboration.

It amazes me how people are often more willing to act based on little or no data than to use data that is a challenge to assemble.

The ability to focus attention on important things is a defining characteristic of intelligence.

Some of the best theorizing comes after collecting data because then you become aware of another reality.

Money management has been a profession involving a lot of fakery - people saying they can beat the market, and they really can't.

Economics is (now) about emotion and psychology.

Consider our difficulties avoiding junk food and overspending. Such addictions were carefully planned-for by professional marketing teams.

Somehow, talking to young students brings you back to reality - it should, anyway.

Liberalism downplays certain of our moral senses: loyalty, authority, and sanctity.

Life's meaning heavily benefits from lifelong bonds.

for what is religion if not a kind of madness, and what is madness without a touch of religion?

We all have choices. What are you choosing to believe about yourself, and about your life Believing you don't have a choice is a choice.

The way that people show me love on Twitter? I don't know man. It's amazing.

The best advice on writing I've ever received was from William Zinsser: 'Be grateful for every word you can cut.'

Some decent regulated pre-eminence, some preference (not exclusive appropriation) given to birth, is neither unnatural, nor unjust, nor impolite.

These acts of mass murder were intended to frighten our nation into chaos and retreat.But they have failed; our country is strong.

I want to see the two CEOs of RIM and (Apple CEO Steve) Jobs working together. The thought of this menage a trois is absolutely hilarious.

It is difficult to connect general principles with such thoroughly concrete things as children.

Life is such a very troublesome matter, when all is said and done, that it's as well even to take its blessings quietly.

Without knowing your Spirit you cannot know God.