Like Odysseus, the President looked wiser when he was seated.

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.

God is only as strong as your belief in him.

Travel is costly yes, but it pays dividends too.

We are not in the world, the world is inside us.

All sorrows are less with bread.

He was probably being so quiet because he was trying not to say it out loud.

Two heads are better than one, not because either is infallible, but because they are unlikely to go wrong in the same direction.

We have the same problem as everyone else: It's very hard to predict the future.

Nothing can be so bad as to be displeased with one's self.

Sometimes, a family is like an ear of summer corn: It might look perfect on the outside, but when you peel the husk away. every kernel is rotten.

I just want to keep laying down really great, strong characters, and the more I go unrecognized, the better job I feel I'm doing.