Under current law, on January 1, 2013, there's going to be a massive fiscal cliff of large spending cuts and tax increases.

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.

You must be present in the present to make it a present. -RVM

Christ wrought out His perfect obedience as a man, through temptation, and by suffering.

Most Italians who came to this country are very patriotic. There was this exciting possibility that if you worked real hard, and you loved something, you could become successful.

When I was a young musician, the only option available to pursue secondary education in music was to attend a classical conservatory.

In golf, the customs and etiquette and decorum are as important as the rules of play.

One of the greatest opportunities to live our values-or betray them-lies in the food we put on our plates.

I get the same charge from juxtaposition of colors as I do from juxtaposition of chords.

Ive worked very hard at understanding myself, learning to be assertive. Im past the point where I worry about people liking me.

My right wrist is connected to the left foot. You know, if the left foot doesn't work, the right wrist doesn't work, and that's really the truth.

There is only one purpose in hand-to-hand combat, and that is to kill. Never face an enemy with the idea of knocking him out. The chances are extremely good that he will kill you.