To predict the future we would have to know today what we will learn tomorrow which will shape our future actions

I continue to be a photographer; I have enjoyed fishing and hunting with a close friend; and have owned two ranches, first in northern California and then in the state of Washington.

My record at the University of California as an undergraduate was mediocre to say the best.

My early work and publications centered around expanding on the analysis of life insurance in my dissertation and its relationship to investment banking.

Our family life was certainly not intellectual.

It was not until I got my first job, at the University of Washington in Seattle, and began playing chess with Don Gordon, a brilliant young theorist, that I learned economic theory.

My brother and sister are both older than I am and were born before my father went off to World War I.

In 1972 I married again, to Elisabeth Case; she continues to be wife, companion, critic and editor: a partner in the projects and programs that we undertake.

What the war did was give me the opportunity of three years of continuous reading, and it was in the course of reading that I became convinced that I should become an economist.

I learned to fly an airplane, and had my own airplane during the 1960s.

I had hoped to go to law school, but the war started, and because of the strong feeling that I did not want to kill anybody, I joined the Merchant Marine when I graduated from Berkeley.

Age is measured by the dreams not by the years.

Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at the stars.

I have noticed that nothing I never said ever did me any harm.

To create is likewise to give a shape to one's fate

I've never lost my appetite for acting; it's innovative and challenging.

Isn't life strange? There are people who have so many leftover clothes they can't stuff them all in their wardrobe. And then there are people like me, whose socks never match.

There is something wrong about the man who wants help. There is somewhere a deep defect, a want, in brief, a need, a crying need, somewhere about that man.

I'm just going to write my books and do my work and release it. Let the world decide what it is, and if it's any good or not.

Learning to drive is a scary thing for a parent. I had to basically lie to get the keys when I was a kid.

Anybody that has a decent job or career has it because they love what they do.