A mistake is not something to be determined after the fact, but in the light of the information until that point.

I don't read the papers; I stopped reading the papers. I read the papers only during periods of crisis, and I think papers are too long on a regular day and too short days when we have a crisis.

Poverty is clearly one source of emotional suffering, but there are others, like loneliness.

Please, don’t drive a school bus blindfolded.

The track record of economists in predicting events is monstrously bad. It is beyond simplification; it is like medieval medicine.

Never, never, never think - that's one lesson you should have in life. Never think that lack of variability is stability.

It is my great hope someday, to see science and decision makers rediscover what the ancients have always known. Namely that our highest currency is respect.