The world can, in effect, get along without natural resources, so exhaustion is just an event, not a catastrophe.

If God had meant there to be more than two factors of production, He would have made it easier for us to draw three-dimension al diagrams.

You can see the computer age everywhere but in the productivity statistics.

There is not some glorious theoretical synthesis of capitalism that you can write down in a book and follow. You have to grope your way

But part of the job of economics is weeding out errors. That is much harder than making them, but also more fun.

Computers show up everywhere except the growth statistics.

The fact that there is no such thing as a perfect anti-sepsis does not mean that one might as well do brain surgery in a sewer.

Why does a public discussion of economic policy so often show the abysmal ignorance of the participants?

The key thing about wealth in a capitalist economy is that it reproduces itself and usually earns a positive net return.

We tend to seek closure and completeness.

We look into our hearts and see objectivity

The human heart has a staggering capacity for love.

It's so easy to get stuck. You just get caught in being something, being special or cool or whatever, to the point where you don't even know why you need it; you just think you do.

Show me a person who doesn't like to laugh and I'll show you a person with a toe tag.

Often on earth the gentlest heart is fain To feed and banquet on another's woe.

It takes four generations to recover from every act of violence.

Sydney! Stop. Think of something else. Conjugate Latin verbs. Recite the periodic table.

The uninvestigated life is not worth living. I don't want to live that way.

While I can see how the government has, at times, wasted taxpayers' money, and I can admit that too often its programs are ineffective, I also can see the good that government does.