There's always light at the end of the tunnel, right? It just depends on how long the tunnel is.

I'm a straightforward person. I like to be direct with people.

I don't see (subprime mortgage market troubles) imposing a serious problem. I think it's going to be largely contained.

It's a safe banking system, a sound banking system. Our regulators are on top of it. This is a very manageable situation.

Our overriding goal in restructuring our financial architecture should be that taxpayers never again have to save a failing financial institution.

I never once considered that it was appropriate to put taxpayer money on the line in resolving Lehman Brothers.

In just about every area of society, there's nothing more important than ethics.

Economic growth and environmental protection are not at odds. They're opposite sides of the same coin if you're looking at longer-term prosperity.

Every global concern - economic, environmental or security-related - can be addressed more effectively when the U.S. and China work together.

Regulation needs to catch up with innovation.

When you have a big, ugly problem, there's never going to be a neat, elegant solution that is totally painless or without a cost.

Perhaps if I'd had God in my life growing up I would have been able to understand the total and complete unfairness of the universe rewarding mean girls

The heart can never break if you believe love never dies.

I went to all the Love-Ins. I took my kids. I enjoyed myself.

Transformationally motivated people are the growing edge of a great continuity of souls reaching back to the very earliest times.

That's one of the things I love about being a songwriter first, last and always, because whether I do it or not, if someone does a great job on it, my work is done.

Learning is an active process. We learn by doing.. Only knowledge that is used sticks in your mind.

I'm so used to being separate from the publication process. I turn in the book to the editor and then I'm done.

The more you subtract, the more you add.

I got offered to do Ben 10. Sue Blu was the [voice] director of that, and I had worked with her - I think she was on Transformers as well. And she was so great.

When someone dies, it is like when your house burns down; it isn't for years that you realize the full extent of your loss.