Accounting for the most part, remains a legalistic and traditional practice, almost immune to self-criticism by scientific methods.

Anyone who believes exponential growth can go on forever in a finite world is either a madman or an economist.

A world of unseen dictatorship is conceivable, still using the forms of democratic government.

Economics has been incurably growth-oriented and addicted to everybody growing richer, even at the cost of exhaustion of resources and pollution of the environment.

Equilibrium is a figment of the human imagination.

Theories without facts may be barren, but facts without theories are meaningless.

We should always bear in mind that numbers represent a simplification of reality.

DNA has been aptly described as the first three-dimensional Xerox machine.

The world moves into the future as a result of decisions, not as a result of plans. Plans are significant only insofar as they affect decisions.

If we saw tomorrow's newspaper today, tomorrow would never happen.

There is no such thing as economics, only social science applied to economic problems.

Love one another. Love yourself. Then love will find you whole not half.

If one maintains the intent of, ‘no one should have the slightest difficulty on my account’, then his work will be considered to be done.

they simply never understand, do they, that sometimes solitude is one of the most beautiful things on earth?

Instinct guides the animal better than the man. In the animal it is pure, in man it is led astray by his reason and intelligence.

The soul is covered by a thousand veils.

Most Americans want health insurance.

Promise yourself to make all your friends know there is something in them that is special and that you value.

In a Wonderland they lie, Dreaming as the days go by, Dreaming as the summers die: Ever drifting down the stream- Lingering in the golden gleam- Life, what is it but a dream?

Initiative is as essential to success as a hub is essential to a wagon wheel.

It is unacceptable that someone can work full time - and work hard - and not be able to lift themselves out of poverty.