Repeated reflection and inquiry have led me to the somewhat novel opinion, that value depends entirely upon utility.

Value is the most invincible and impalpable of ghosts, and comes and goes unthought of, while the visible and dense matter remains as it was.

A little experience is worth much argument; a few facts are better than any theory.

Economists can never be free of from difficulties unless they will distinguish between a theory and the application of a theory.

The difficulties of economics are mainly the difficulties of conceiving clearly and fully the conditions of utility.

we often observe that there is abundance of capital to be had at low rates of interest, while there are also large numbers of artisans starving for want of employment.

As a general rule, it is foolish to do just what other people are doing, because there are almost sure to be too many people doing the same thing.

Logic should no longer be considered an elegant and learned accomplishment; it should take its place as an indispensable study for every well-informed person.

The theory which follows is entirely based on a calculus of pleasure and pain; and the object of economics is to maximize happiness by purchasing pleasure, as it were, at the lowest cost of pain.

but, in reality, there is no such thing as an exact science.

A correct theory is the first step towards improvement, by showing what we need and what we might accomplish.

Happiness is.. rising in LOVE in spite of gravity

You have many gifts

When you kill a man, You steal a life. You steal his wife's right to a husband, Rob his children of a father.

I hate to lose more than I love to win.

Innovation! One cannot be forever innovating. I want to create classics.

The more liberty you give away the more you will have.

It's Fifty, not Fiddy.

During job interviews, when they ask: 'What is your worst quality?', I always say: 'Flatulence'. That way I get my own office.

Violence commands both literature and life, and violence is always crude and distorted.

Looking at the Bible, it would seem that God is just a more highly evolved human.