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.

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

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.

I really love the dark of the night. It helps me to concentrate.

I'm the ghetto Martha Stewart, the black Rachel Ray.

The moderation of fortunate people comes from the calm which good fortune gives to their tempers.

It's either good, bad or somewhere in between. It's either ying, yang or it's a combination. You're either male, female or somewhere in between. You've got to be somewhere on the map.

Was that you or the duck?

Smokey and The Bandit was just a lark. All we did was run up and down those Georgia roads wrecking cars and having the time of our life.

When you play a violin piece, you are a storyteller, and you're telling a story.

Men have made of fortune an all-powerful goddess, in order that she may be made responsible for all their blunder's.

A Christianity that is in conflict with the Scriptures isn't Christianity at all.

I am not afraid of a fight; I have to do my duty, come what may.