Most men love money and security more, and creation and construction less, as they get older.

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.

We'll be remembered more for what we destroy than what we create.

Dream on it, think on it, ink on it, speak on it... then proceed to bring on it. Fulfillment is ordered to find you. Shine time!

Naming can satisfy a need, it can shorten a conversation that otherwise might go on for hours.

Remember, the burden of sorrow is doubled when it is borne alone.

Everybody wants to disown neocon strategy, including the neocons, because that strategy never worked. Still, it was, in point of fact, a strategy. Nobody else has one.

You can't stop people from talking about you, but you can stop giving them something to talk about.

I hate complacency. I play every gig as if it could be my last, then I enjoy it more than ever.

I stop working at about 3 p.m. on Fridays.

Coincidence is what you have left over when you apply a bad theory.

In my mind God made Adam and Eve, he didn't make Adam and Steve.