An isolated man like Alexander Selkirk might feel the benefit of a stock of provisions, tools and other means of facilitating industry, although cut off from traffic, with other men.

Value is the most invincible and impalpable of ghosts, and comes and goes unthought of, while the visible and dense matter remains as it was.

A little experience is worth much argument; a few facts are better than any theory.

Economists can never be free of from difficulties unless they will distinguish between a theory and the application of a theory.

The difficulties of economics are mainly the difficulties of conceiving clearly and fully the conditions of utility.

we often observe that there is abundance of capital to be had at low rates of interest, while there are also large numbers of artisans starving for want of employment.

As a general rule, it is foolish to do just what other people are doing, because there are almost sure to be too many people doing the same thing.

Logic should no longer be considered an elegant and learned accomplishment; it should take its place as an indispensable study for every well-informed person.

The theory which follows is entirely based on a calculus of pleasure and pain; and the object of economics is to maximize happiness by purchasing pleasure, as it were, at the lowest cost of pain.

but, in reality, there is no such thing as an exact science.

A correct theory is the first step towards improvement, by showing what we need and what we might accomplish.

I reject the notion that we must tell girls that the only way to be valid human beings is to turn themselves into boys.

Some time curiosity kill's you but it still worth to Die for

I fell asleep during 'Year One' twice. And my son, who never falls asleep during a Jack Black movie, also nodded off. That's how bad it was. I was incredibly disappointed.

To make art you need to be inspired.

Writing a novel resembles a journey with only the sketchiest of maps.

The big thing for me is, I never think about myself as a female in business. I'm a person in business.

I don't care what my children choose to do professionally, just as long as within their choices they understand they've got to give something back.

It is the unseen and the spiritual in people that determines the outward and the actual.

My experience tells me the hard road is almost always the right road.

In some ways, America has grown up to be a masterpiece of self-concern.