The underlying intellectual argument for seeking to tax economic rents retains its force.

Of all the many ways of organising banking, the worst is the one we have today.

Global market forces will sort out those companies that do not have sound corporate governance.

When banks extend loans to their customers, they create money by crediting their customers’ accounts.

The holy passion of Friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money.

Dare to be you.

Insomnia is his mind's revenge for all the tricky thoughts he has carefully avoided during the daylight hours.

I'm tired of being responsible for other people's misery. I can't even put up with my own.

Until man is nothing, God can make nothing of him. - Martin Luther

The thing which Reagan did, which was great, was he won the people. He marginalized the media. And that's what you need, an intellectual agility.

Men think epilepsy divine, merely because they do not understand it. We will one day understand what causes it, and then cease to call it divine. And so it is with everything in the universe.

Entertainment and art are not isolated

In the tennis world, there weren't a whole lot of Asians playing. You see it a little bit more now. The same can really be said for basketball.

I know not whether increasing years do not cause us to esteem fewer people and to bear with more.