Perhaps a day might come when there would be at last be enough to go round, and when posterity could enter into the enjoyment of our labors.

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.

A pure love is a selfless love, but can desire ever be selfless?

That moment when a knot forms in your throat, but you choose to throw your head back and laugh instead.

No one but a theorist believes his theory; everyone puts faith in a laboratory result but the experimenter himself.

I would like to see Greece as a case study, an opportunity for Europe to strengthen its coordination of fiscal policy.

For who would live if life held no allurements?

I love to observe Christmas in quietude, humility, benevolence, charity, letting good will towards man, eloquent silence, prayer, and praise express my conception of Truth’s appearing.

There are moments in Life when keeping silent becomes a fault, and speaking an obligation. A civic duty, a moral challenge, a categorical imperative from which we cannot escape.

I just hope that my films will survive me.

Oprah deserves the best. I am not the best when it comes to divorce. What do I know about divorce? Nothing at that time.

My Lord, it is a very hard sentence. For my part, I am the innocentest person of them all, only I have been sworn against by perjured persons.