The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones.

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.

Never question another man's motive. His wisdom, yes, but not his motives.

I think sometimes the stars align whether we want them to or not. And we're drawn to certain people and places for no other reason than...Destiny.

I wondered why humans were even given the gift of speech at all. We no longer needed it

Ke$ha is super talented and super fun and always down to party - I love that girl.

Breathe in a smile; breathe out a chuckle. (You can do it.)

Old people are fond of giving good advice; it consoles them for no longer being capable of setting a bad example.

Quoting her mother: The trouble with a book is you never know what's in it until it's too late!

Promising a revolution that’s simply not feasible really does have the potential to create cynicism when a couple of years go by and it hasn’t happened.

He turned into a rhinocerous," Ms. Smirt said. "He does that," Sabrina said.

It is one of my rules in life, never to notice what I don't understand.