The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping the 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.

Only when your love of roses is greater than your fear of thorns can you grow a beautiful garden.

The worldly life (sansar) means a basket full of worries.

Live your life in such a way that when a video coverage is taken of you either in light or in the darkness, it can receive an applause when it is shown in your chapel for everyone to view!

Reaching for the stars, perfectionists may end up clutching at air.

I was born to speak. I got in trouble as a kid for talking. I already knew it was a strength.

We only have one life to live. Since everybody has the potential to be successful, I hope we'll all take an action and actually live it.

At the core of all successful societies are procedures for blocking the advancement of bad men

Lenin, Stalin, and Mao slaughtered even more tens of millions in the name of equality than Hitler murdered in the name of inequality.

In many ways, people growing up with the Web and now the Semantic Web take the power at their fingertips for granted.

I like the idea of imagining a sound and feeling a sound and then having it come out through your body, through an instrument. That's an important way to make music.