The treasury could fill old bottles with banknotes and bury them..and leave it to private enterprises on well-tried principles of laissez-faire to dig the notes up again.

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 on any given day you don't cry from rejoicing in the beauty of the world, then you have not lived that day.

Sometimes we need to examine who we are, what we stand for and the people we allow in our lives.

If you want a work well done select a busy man: the other kind has no time.

Unable to do away with love, the Church found a way to decontaminate it by creating marriage.

Our lives are awkward and fragile and we have only one thing to keep us sane: pity, and the man without pity is mad.

Time. It hangs heavy for the bored, eludes the busy, flies by the for young, and runs out for the aged.

Allow the inherent emptiness within what you are about to do direct you.

We cannot elect men to office who are afraid of premature evacuation.

The one way of guaranteeing to fail is to assume that we will.

As long as our orientation is toward perfection or success, we will never learn about unconditional friendship with ourselves, nor will we find compassion.