Not everybody is qualified to go to Stanford, but everybody should have access to the best qualify for which they are eligible.

International lending banks need to focus on areas where private investment doesn't go, such as infrastructure projects, education and poverty relief.

Macroeconomic policy can never be devoid of politics: it involves fundamental trade-offs and affects different groups differently.

It is trust, more than money, that makes the world go round.

There must have been something in the air of Gary that led one into economics: the first Nobel Prize winner, Paul Samuelson, was also from Gary, as were several other distinguished economists.

What you measure affects what you do. If you don't measure the right thing, you don't do the right thing.

American inequality didn't just happen. It was created.

The problem is a lot of what is called economics is not economics. It is more ideology or religion.

Trickle-down economics is a myth. Enriching corporations - as the TPP would - will not necessarily help those in the middle, let alone those at the bottom.

The striking thing about America is - it's historically, extraordinary unusual, I don't of any other instance - is that productivity of workers and wages have not moved in tandem.

In developing countries, lack of infrastructure is a far more serious barrier to trade than tariffs.

Be real! Fake and phony people never grow.." - Sivaprakash Sidhu

I want you to let go. Just close your eyes and feel me. Don't think. Don't try to control it. All you have to do... is feel.

Instead of harboring fear and suspicion we need to think of other people not as ‘them’ but ‘us’.

In Hollywood, you play a mom, and the next thing you know, you're on 'The Golden Girls.' They age you so fast.

Many count on their disadvantages to cover for them.

Creation is all space, all time - all things past, present, and future.

We cannot make rivers whole unless we wholly understand them.

So much of life, it seems to me, is determined by pure randomness.

Reverence is the sense that there is something larger than the self, larger even than the human, to which one accords respect and awe and assent.