It is generally agreed that casinos should, in the public interest, be inaccessible and expensive. And perhaps the same is true of Stock Exchanges.

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.

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

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.

The truly cultured are capable of owning thousands of unread books without losing their composure or their desire for more.

The only kind of love to be found, is within you. That other kind everybody wants... it finds you.

Could we ever switch to this or any of the many other rational systems? Unlikely: tradition is difficult to overcome.

Power only tires those who don't exercise it.

The proliferation of support groups suggests to me that too many Americans are growing up in homes that do not contain a grandmoth.

Anyone who, for 25 years, has built a career on such tenuous foundations as a high-pitched giggle, a raspberry and a sprinkling of top 'Cs' needs all the friends he can get.

[John Larroquette] is very generous as the star of a show. He always made sure that if we had a joke that didn't work or something, he'd fight for the other actors.

Other people and their opinions hold no power in defining our destiny.

I wanted to be Katharine Hepburn-ish - there was a bit of nobility about her.

Even today, I frequently meet scientists who, outside their own narrow discipline, are superstitious.