The plausible outcomes range from the gradual and benign to the more precipitous and damaging.

Never before in modern times has so much of the world been simultaneously hit by a confluence of economic and financial turmoil such as we are now living through.

Most consequential choices involve shades of gray, and some fog is often useful in getting things done

Monetary policy itself cannot sensibly be directed at reducing imbalances.

The recognition that things that are not sustainable will eventually come to an end does not give us much of a guide to whether the transition will be calm or exciting.

We believe in a strong dollar. Chinese financial assets are very safe.

This crisis is not simply a more severe version of the usual business cycle recession, the typical downturn in which economies ultimately adjust and stabilize.

Financial crises require governments.

The choice is between which mistake is easier to correct: underdoing it or overdoing it.

The substantial uncertainty about the path of asset price movements going forward necessarily reduces the case for altering policy in advance of the move.

I believe deeply that it's very important to the United States, to the economic health of the United States, that we maintain a strong dollar.

The weak dread the storm, the foolish invite the storm, the wise avoid the storm, the strong battle the storm, and the great overcome the storm.

What, all so soon asleep! I wish mine eyesWould, with themselves, shut up my thoughts...

... it was with an unusual intensity of pleasure, a pleasure destined to have a lasting effect upon his character and conduct...

The hero's achievement, in short, is to affirm life.

Grandparents are there to help the child get into mischief they haven't thought of yet.

Everything is a mystery, ourselves, and all things both simple and humble.

We need a hit, so here I go.

When I came out to Hollywood, I discovered the perfect place for my creative madness - Cannon Pictures.

I have both held and beheld unlimited power and of it I know but one thing. It drives men mad.' - Alexander the Great

Hunting is now to most of us a game, whose relish seems based upon some mystic remembrance, in the blood, of ancient days when to hunter as well as hunted it was a matter of life and death.