I only have two things in my life, my family and work. If there's any time left over, then I play sports.

Our economy isn't going to recover until the housing market finds its footing.

Distressed properties are often vacant and in disrepair, and thus sold at significant discounts. As the share of distressed sales grows, home prices fall.

I'm a registered Democrat.

Past experience with fiscal austerity at home and overseas strongly suggests that it is best for the economy's long-run performance to restrain government spending rather than raise taxes.

We need to get rid of the debt ceiling law. It's anachronistic and it's a problem.

Our biggest challenge is to eliminate the popular perception that economists don't have anything useful to say.

Predicting recessions is indeed a dark art, but I think we are several years away from the next one.

The discussion in Washington has changed dramatically. I mean, it's no longer a question of should we address entitlements - it's no longer a question of do we need to reduce spending in the future.

If Mr. Trump gets precisely the policies he says he wants, then the economy will suffer a recession.

The upshot of Mr. Trump's economic policy positions under almost any scenario is that the U.S. economy will be more isolated and diminished.

The most unknown, unused and unrecognised tool of the human mind, is the recognition that attitude is always a choice.

You will not know all about the firesimply because you asked.When she speaks of the forestthis is what she is teaching you, you who thought you were her master.

Turning your back on nothing and walking away is not disloyal, it's self respect.

My house is my refuge, an emotional piece of architecture, not a cold piece of convenience.

Could I tell them I was sorry their loved one was dead, when he’d tried to kill me? There was no rule of etiquette for this; even my grandmother would have been stymied.

The less I pray, the harder it gets; the more I pray, the better it goes.

We are trained to ask "What's wrong and how we fix it?" Instead, start by asking - "What works, what have we got, what's possible and who cares?"

Nothing in life comes easy. Everything comes with a sacrifice

More inhumanity (to man) has been done by man himself than any other of nature's causes.

European and American values do not fully coincide.