Consumption may be regarded as negative production.

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.

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

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.

Should we not invariably act in this life as though the God whom our heart desires with its highest desire were watching our every action?

Do not prove but be yourself.

Ambition was a dull pain, like a continually broken heart.

If you can be still enough and common enough, then it's really easy to be invisible.

I take care of my voice; I'm working out the way I would do my body, so that stays in shape.

I'm always looking for new talent.

Success, for me, is a song that can deliver shivers.

The secular world is more spiritual than it thinks, just as the ecclesiastical world is more materialist than it cares to acknowledge.

The penalty for a long life is increasing resistance to change.

When you look past the image, a celebrity is merely a person you know nothing about.