Capital is that part of wealth which is devoted to obtaining further wealth.

The most valuable of all capital is that invested in human beings

Political Economy or Economics is a study of mankind in the ordinary business of life.

Knowledge is our most powerful engine of production.

In common use almost every word has many shades of meaning, and therefore needs to be interpreted by the context.

Civilized countries generally adopt gold or silver or both as money.

The price of every thing rises and falls from time to time and place to place; and with every such change the purchasing power of money changes so far as that thing goes.

The most reckless and treacherous of all theorists is he who professes to let facts and figures speak for themselves.

Nature's action is complex: and nothing is gained in the long run by pretending that it is simple, and trying to describe it in a series of elementary propositions.

In every age poets and social reformers have tried to stimulate the people of their own time to a nobler life by enchanting stories of the virtues of the heroes of old.

Every short statement about economics is misleading (with the possible exception of my present one).

An over examination of life can deter you from life itself

Frankly, I believe that identity is what's inside us.

We have to love technology enough to describe it accurately. And we have to love ourselves enough to confront technology's true effect on us.

I'm sure every film it's going to be like, 'Okay, this is the scene where your shirt gets ripped off.' I'll never be able to keep my shirt on.

It would be nice to spend billions on schools and roads, but right now that money is desperately needed for political ads.

Ahimsa is not a matter of mere dietetics: it transcends it.

All humans are entrepreneurs not because they should start companies but because the will to create is encoded in human DNA.

Green Day is politically brain-dead but I love the little monkeys.

We must succumb to the general influence of the times. No man can be of the tenth century, if he would; be must be a man of the nineteenth century.

Ay, but to die, and go we know not where.