Increasingly prices are set by sellers to raise their prices without a loss of sales sufficient to wipe out the gain.

There is no real justification for a requirement that a budget of any sort should be balanced, except as a rallying point for those who seek to hamstring government.

The insane pursuit of the holy grail of a balanced budget in the end is going to drive the economy into a depression.

Larger deficits are necessary and proper means to mitigate unemployment as the far greater evil in terms of human welfare.

There is no reason inherent in the real resources available to us why we cannot move rapidly within the next two or three years to a state of genuine full employment.

Deficits do not in themselves produce inflation, nor does a balanced budget assure a stable price level.

Balancing a nominal budget will solve nothing, and attempting to achieve such a spurious balance will produce much mischief.

Practically, the desirable situation ought to be one in which any reasonably responsible person willing to accept available employment can find a job paying a living wage within 48 hours.

Currently a level of unemployment of 7% or more seems to be required to keep inflation from accelerating, a level quite unacceptable as a permanent situation.

The nominal budget is a poor indicator of the impact of government outlays and revenues.

Nearly all educational expenditure should be considered a capital outlay. Education provides a future return in the form of enhanced taxable income and an enhanced quality of life.

One of the best ways to influence people is to make them feel important.

The best remedy for people who have become your headache is to take a 'chill pill' from your willingness to endure their misery.

Animals are such agreeable friends they ask no questions pass no criticisms.

Every person that comes into our life comes for a reason; some come to learn and others come to teach.

My only problem is finding a way to play my fortieth fallen female in a different way from my thirty-ninth.

My first rule of travel is never to go to a place that sounds like a medical condition and Critz is clearly an incurable disease involving flaking skin.

Texas is rich in unredeemed dreams

Man has not a greater enemy than himself.

Things are never as good as you think they are or ever as bad as you think they are.

And it is a quiet terrible thing, too, to discover the value of love this way [after loss] - when the object of love is no longer there, when love dies or goes away or changes. When it is too late.