Nothing fails like success because we don't learn from it. We learn only from failure.

Anyone who believes exponential growth can go on forever in a finite world is either a madman or an economist.

A world of unseen dictatorship is conceivable, still using the forms of democratic government.

Economics has been incurably growth-oriented and addicted to everybody growing richer, even at the cost of exhaustion of resources and pollution of the environment.

Equilibrium is a figment of the human imagination.

Theories without facts may be barren, but facts without theories are meaningless.

We should always bear in mind that numbers represent a simplification of reality.

DNA has been aptly described as the first three-dimensional Xerox machine.

The world moves into the future as a result of decisions, not as a result of plans. Plans are significant only insofar as they affect decisions.

If we saw tomorrow's newspaper today, tomorrow would never happen.

There is no such thing as economics, only social science applied to economic problems.

All the gods know is destinations.

I should much rather see a reasonable agreement with Arabs based upon living together than the creation of a Jewish state.

If I cannot trust someone's judgment, I cannot ask others to do so, and I would not place him at the head of my political operation.

The most precious love is often the kind that isn't returned, and that is given freely.

I was in love with a whirlwind, so when the girl threw me over, I went home and finished my novel.

You know, there's a rule in sports, "Don't do anything great if you can't handle the congratulations."

If youre a vegan who ran a marathon & got your dogs from a shelter, how do you decide which thing to wedge into the conversation first?

They say it’s always darkest until right before the dawn. I’ve worked on enough projects to know how true this saying really is.

A Canadian is somebody who knows how to make love in a canoe.

Houston, we have a problem.