By a continuing process of inflation, government can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens.

The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping from the old ones.

Capitalism is the extraordinary belief that the nastiest of men, for the nastiest of reasons, will somehow work for the benefit of us all.

When the facts change, I change my mind.

It is better to be roughly right than precisely wrong.

The biggest problem is not to let people accept new ideas, but to let them forget the old ones.

If farming were to be organised like the stock market, a farmer would sell his farm in the morning when it was raining, only to buy it back in the afternoon when the sun came out.

The outstanding faults of the economic society in which we live are its failure to provide for full employment and its arbitrary and inequitable distribution of wealth and incomes.

Long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead.

The boom, not the slump, is the right time for austerity at the Treasury.

Markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent.

P6-the sociological imagination enables us to grasp history and biography and the relations between the two within sociey.

The reason why you don´t have success is, because you don´t understand the difference between wasting and spending time.

Lies make for pathetic allies.

Shame is a soul eating emotion.

I have never been religious. I talk to God every day, but He's never said a word to me about religion! I think the most powerful prayer is surrender.

I have made so many mistakes as a mother. But the one thing that I know I do is I make sure my children know how much I love them and they are absolutely secure in that.

To understand and be understood is to be free.

If you obsess over whether you are making the right decision, you are basically assuming that the universe will reward you for one thing and punish you for another.

It's nice to see a movie where people are actually succeeding.

In the case of The Loved One, I was hired to collaborate on an updated version of the book.