Once we allow ourselves to be disobedient to the test of an accountant's profit, we have begun to change our civilization.

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 rain begins with a single drop

Good historians...have the future in their bones

Women rule the world

We play it differently now. If we did the album now it would be different.

It is only in Washington where many still have a lingering animosity for the political parties. My friends, we need to get over it.

Oh, Teddy, darling, thank you, thank you, for restoring my cynicism. I was too young to lose it.

Write for the right reasons - i.e. yourself.

Raw and honest is what I go for [in my style of shooting]. I am looking for your inner beauty. The outside tells a story... But together is raw honesty.

Ungratefulness is the very poison of manhood.

All things look good from far away and it is man's eternally persistent childlike faith in the reality of that illusion that has made him the triumphant restless being he is.