It's the price of success: people start to think you're omnipotent.

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.

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

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.

To a happy war!' laughter echoed with all the insane glee of an army of psychopaths.

Art allows us to die over and over without actually dying. Only we must catch our breath.

No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.

Those who enter through the back door can expect to be shown out through the window

What is it to be a philosopher? Is it not to be prepared against events?

Restaurants are a wonderful escape for me. And are for a lot of people.

They like life alright, but that they would like it even better if they could know that it was going to end sometime.

We all have to control our feelings. That's the thing that separates us from animals.

Justice never means "treating everybody the same way", but "treating people appropriately".

If you and I are to be used in our sphere as D.L. Moody was used in his, we must put all that we have and all that we are in the hands of God, for Him to use as He will.