It must be awfully frustrating to get a small raise at work and then have it all eaten by a higher cost of commuting.

Nobody likes to fail but failure is an essential part of life and of learning. If your uniform isn't dirty, you haven't been in the game.

The U.S. government has a technology, called a printing press (or, today, its electronic equivalent), that allows it to produce as many U.S. dollars as it wishes at essentially no cost.

The financial crisis appears to be mostly behind us, and the economy seems to have stabilized and is expanding again.

Monetary policy is not a panacea.

Monetary policy cannot do much about long-run growth, all we can try to do is to try to smooth out periods where the economy is depressed because of lack of demand

If you want to understand geology, study earthquakes. If you want to understand the economy, study the Depression.

Economics is a very difficult subject. I've compared it to trying to learn how to repair a car when the engine is running.

Economics is a highly sophisticated field of thought that is superb at explaining to policymakers precisely why the choices they made in the past were wrong. About the future, not so much.

If you are not happy with yourself, even the loftiest achievements won't bring you much satisfaction.

Nobody really understands gold prices and I don't pretend to understand them either.

No one human being knows the full truth about another human being. Not even one's nearest and dearest.

Love is beautiful even if they are in movies and books.

Take all mistakes for love, because there actually are no mistakes.

A gift much expected is paid, not given.

The creation of a work of art, like an act of love, is our one small 'yes' at the center of a vast 'no.'

So here is what it comes down to: the ultimate choice in life is between pleasing ourselves and pleasing God.

Art is based on a strong sentiment of religion,--on a profound and mighty earnestness; hence it is so prone to co-operate with religion.

Every woman knows the art of saying no with the lips and yes with the rest

The attorney general should be enforcing the law, not policy.

We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from ourselves.