At present", Keynes said in 1926, "everything is politics, and nothing policies.

Experiment and reason, tempered by intuition, were to him preferable to solid plodding in the well-trodden paths of experience.

The science of public happiness was how Keynes saw his work as an economist.

People who love themselves, don’t hurt other people. The more we hate ourselves, the more we want others to suffer.

Reading had always been, through bad, boring, or better times, his best connection to humans.

With certainty, courage and commitment, the dream will be a reality.

After all, the girl actually had faith in something, which was more than most people had in these dark times. It was wrong to destroy it.

I don't think about art when I'm working. I try to think about life.

And it falls to a true leader to see to it that his or her people have an inspiring vision to pursue.

Old noted oak! I saw thee in a mood Of vague indifference; and yet with me Thy memory, like thy fate, hath lingering stood For years, thou hermit, in the lonely sea Of grass that waves around thee!

Even if the script's well written there's something about the life of an improvisation that resonates better than a written word, sometimes.

But it is in storms that God does his finest work, for it is in storms that God has our keenest attention

I'm a person that just likes to speak the truth, and I don't understand why in America it's such a big deal that we won't read the Koran and we won't look at history.