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

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

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.

What you are seeking is yourself.

I thought how wise he was to lure his rival out into the woods, where every fight's fair.

The lion of anger shall give place to the lamb of meekness; the raven of uncleanness shall fly before the dove of purity; the vile serpent of deceit shall be trodden under the heel of truth.

Sometimes I feel like the corner in the circle.

Even Lucifer looked impressed. He muttered, "Only Lucinda could pull that off.

You have to be careful what you imagine, because the act of imagining is the act of encouraging yourself to be a certain kind of person.

It is not difficult to avoid death. It is much more difficult to avoid wickedness, for it runs faster than death.

I prefer to be refuted than to refute, for it is a greater good for oneself to be freed from the greatest evil than to free another.

There are rooms for traditional and contemporary and hip hop Gospel music.

If you want to remain at liberty, I suggest you not antagonize your defenders.