I couldn't reconcile what I was being taught at the university of Chicago, the lectures and the books I was being assigned, with what I knew to be true out in the streets.

Good questions outrank easy answers.

An intriguing paradox of the 1990s is that it isn't called a decade of greed.

I don't care who writes a nation's laws - or crafts its advanced treaties - if I can write its economics textbooks.

Politicians like to tell people what they want to hear - and what they want to hear is what won't happen.

Macroeconomics, even with all of our computers and with all of our information - is not an exact science and is incapable of being an exact science.

What we know about the global financial crisis is that we don't know very much.

Every good cause is worth some inefficiency.

A growing nation is the greatest ponzi game ever contrived.

Profits are the lifeblood of the economic system, the magic elixir upon which progress and all good things depend ultimately. But one man's lifeblood is another man's cancer.

Investing should be more like watching paint dry or watching grass grow. If you want excitement, take $800 and go to Las Vegas.

Just relax and enjoy the magnificence of life.

If you don’t know how to deal with emotion, other people’s feelings can hit you like a drug.

My animal howlsMy angel's upsetBut I'm not allowedA trace of regret

CONGRATULATIONS DL Havlin! Your entry, "There are No Lights in Naples", an unpublished short fiction - flash fiction genre category, is a finalist for the 2016 Royal Palm Literary Awards competition!

I grew up in the South, so a huge part of our American History education revolved around the Civil War.

This was the very reason why you were brought to Narnia, that by knowing me here for a little, you may know me better there.

Memory says, 'I did that.' Pride replies, 'I could not have done that.' Eventually, memory yields.

Wilderness is a necessity... there must be places for human beings to satisfy their souls.

[Joseph] Stalin closes the exposition of these [Leon Trotsky] ideas with the words, "Such are in general the characteristic features of [Vladimir] Lenin's conception of the proletarian revolution."

How was it possible that entire lives could change, could be destroyed, and that streets and buildings remained the same, she wondered.