The numeric system was invented to help man to put order in the chaos of the world.

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.

If you don’t have the time to do something right, where are you going to find the time to fix it?

The organisation of your life begins the moment you start out your vision.

The part of her that should have been disgusted was numb.

my poems are only bits of scratchingon the floor of acage.

You can't please everyone, especially if you're doing very radical things at the vanguard of cooking. That's life; it's a polemic I've lived with since I started cooking.

Not art and science only, but patience will be required for the work.

It stirs up envy, fame does.

The past assumes the nature of the present.

There is two feet of space between us, and about a mile of separation.

Life is a test and this world a place of trial.