Political Economy or Economics is a study of mankind in the ordinary business of life.

The most valuable of all capital is that invested in human beings

Capital is that part of wealth which is devoted to obtaining further wealth.

Knowledge is our most powerful engine of production.

In common use almost every word has many shades of meaning, and therefore needs to be interpreted by the context.

Civilized countries generally adopt gold or silver or both as money.

The price of every thing rises and falls from time to time and place to place; and with every such change the purchasing power of money changes so far as that thing goes.

The most reckless and treacherous of all theorists is he who professes to let facts and figures speak for themselves.

Nature's action is complex: and nothing is gained in the long run by pretending that it is simple, and trying to describe it in a series of elementary propositions.

In every age poets and social reformers have tried to stimulate the people of their own time to a nobler life by enchanting stories of the virtues of the heroes of old.

Every short statement about economics is misleading (with the possible exception of my present one).

If you have a strong purpose in life, you don't have to be pushed. Your passion will drive you there.

Amongst all the colours in this multicoloured world, even jet black has its reserved place.

Education is everything - education is your power, education is your way in life for whatever you want to do.

Mathematical high culture collides with pop culture and all hell breaks loose! Harris takes us on a wild ride--never a dull moment!

Some people are so afraid do die that they never begin to live.

When you come to Christ as a real young person, I think when you become a teen-ager either you rebel or you search, doubt, and wonder.

Typically [professors] live in their heads. … They look upon their body as a form of transport for their heads. It’s a way of getting their head to meetings.

I come from a very left wing Socialist family, anti-war and anti-empire.

I work with people and we come up with ideas for movies, television and things like that. It's fun and I love doing it.

The thing to do in this lifetime is to create more merit.