I believe deeply that it's very important to the United States, to the economic health of the United States, that we maintain a strong dollar.

Never before in modern times has so much of the world been simultaneously hit by a confluence of economic and financial turmoil such as we are now living through.

Most consequential choices involve shades of gray, and some fog is often useful in getting things done

Monetary policy itself cannot sensibly be directed at reducing imbalances.

The recognition that things that are not sustainable will eventually come to an end does not give us much of a guide to whether the transition will be calm or exciting.

We believe in a strong dollar. Chinese financial assets are very safe.

This crisis is not simply a more severe version of the usual business cycle recession, the typical downturn in which economies ultimately adjust and stabilize.

Financial crises require governments.

The choice is between which mistake is easier to correct: underdoing it or overdoing it.

The substantial uncertainty about the path of asset price movements going forward necessarily reduces the case for altering policy in advance of the move.

The government can help, but we need to make this transition now to a recovery led by private investment.

God loves you in spite of your mistakes

We may hop when the gods say 'frog, ' but we still get to choose how fast and how high.

A warrior thinks of death when things become unclear. The idea of death is the only thing that tempers our spirit.

Our great symbol for the Goddess is the moon, whose three aspects reflect the three stages in women's lives and whose cycles of waxing and waning coincide with women's menstrual cycles.

Relationships help us to define who we are and what we can become. Most of us can trace our successes to pivotal relationships.

To know is to care, to care is to act, to act is to make a difference.

I love to swim. I need goggles. If I don't have goggles I run in to the walls of the pool. I have no sense of directions.

You are doing better than you think you are. But we can be better.

Every successful author I know faced crushing rejection early on, and they got back up and kept going.

When life gives you lemons. . . You might as well shove 'em where the sun don't shine, because you sure as hell aren't ever going to see any lemonade.