It is the duty of the long-term investor to endure great losses with equanimity.

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.

Books are best preserved in the minds of readers.

The purpose of the Sisterhood of Librarians is to keep the secret of creative juice and keep the idea of libraries alive.

Their heartbeats fought each other, a mess of rhythm. Liesel tried to eat hers down. The taste of heart was not too cheerful.

How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience would have achieved success.

Nobody's trying to kill you, Deirdre. You're killing yourself.

For me--I hold no commerce with despair!

It's very simple, I just tell my sad story, and people weep.

I've really carelessly gotten out of relationships that were incredibly destructive instead of being honest.

I wanted to see myself as something different, and I wanted to convince people that I was capable of something other than what they would expect from me.

The greatest justification for travel is not self-improvement but rather performing a vanishing act, disappearing without a trace.