Rent control has in certain Western countries constituted, maybe, the worst example of poor planning by Governments lacking courage and vision.

It Is in the Agricultural Sector That the Battle for Long- Term Economic Development Will Be Won or Lost.

The big majority of Americans, who are comparatively well-off, have developed an ability to have enclaves of people living in the greatest misery almost without noticing them.

So many social changes are as irreversible as the reaction when sodium is thrown into water.

Correlations are not explanations and besides, they can be as spurious as the high correlation in Finland between foxes killed and divorces.

Social taboos are shy like virtue; once lost, there is no remedy

America is conservative in fundamental principles... but the principles conserved are liberal and some, indeed, are radical.

As a forecaster, Marx shared the common destiny of all prophets: to be belied by events.

The short-term international capital market is shrunken and erratic, and cannot be relied upon to cushion the effects of tendencies to disequilibrium in the balance of payments.

Language, as we know, is full of illogicalities.

Education has in America's whole history been the major hope for improving the individual and society.

Architecture is not so much a knowledge of form, but a form of knowledge.

Scientists have discovered a black hole that is 12 billion times the size of our sun. It's full of Hillary Clinton emails.

I was educated to think maybe Brazil works, maybe it doesn't. But I decided I am going to make this country work for my children. I am investing all my effort now in making Brazil a great country.

[Margaret Thatcher] was always talking about what the prudent housewife should do and what the prudent housewife knew.

I live in Tuxedo Park, N.Y. and spend time in the West Village, where my wife Elizabeth Cotnoir, a writer-producer and documentary filmmaker, has an office.

I had a dream. I had an awesome dream.

Meditation is such a more substantial reality than what we normally take to be reality.

Singing your own songs live is so personal, it's like standing there reading out your diary pages. I still get really nervous so I would have to say performing is the greater rush for me.

When I am dead and buried, on my tombstone I would like to have it written, 'I have arrived.' Because when you feel that you have arrived, you are dead.

The rationality of the ruled is always the weapon of the rulers.