Gentlemen, a depression is for capitalism like a good, cold douche.

Innovation is the market introduction of a technical or organisational novelty, not just its invention.

At the heart of capitalism is creative destruction.

Success depends on intuition, on seeing what afterwards proves true but cannot be established at the moment.

Innovations are changes which cannot be decomposed into infinitessimal steps.

Profit is the payment you get when you take advantage of change.

The ballot is stronger than bullets.

Politicians are like bad horsemen who are so preoccupied with staying in the saddle that they can't bother about where they're going.

We always plan too much and always think too little. We resent a call to thinking and hate unfamiliar argument that does not tally with what we already believe or would like to believe.

We always plan too much and always think too little.

Capitalism inevitably and by virtue of the very logic of its civilization creates, educates and subsidizes a vested interest in social unrest.

You may have tangible wealth untold. Caskets of jewels and coffers of gold. Richer than I you can never be -I had a mother who read to me

I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.

deep inside the eyes of a true lover lies the heart of a true lover.

The mathematical probability of a common cat doing exactly as it pleases is the one scientific absolute in the world.

Woe to those who despise devotion to Mary! ... The soul cannot live without having recourse to Mary and recommending itself to her. He falls and is lost who does not have recourse to Mary.

Vanity is the fear of appearing original: it is thus a lack of pride, but not necessarily a lack of originality.

Never give up and never conform.

My idea being that for the sublime and the beautiful and the interesting, you do not have to look far away. You have to know how to see.

If I had a Boy Scout I could make a fire by rubbing his hind legs together.

These dust storms.... Poor farmer spent a lifetime fixin' his farm and everything, goes out and looks down at it, and it's up above him.