Though a simple book can be written on selected topics, the central doctrines of economics are not simple and cannot be made so.

The most valuable of all capital is that invested in human beings

Political Economy or Economics is a study of mankind in the ordinary business of life.

Capital is that part of wealth which is devoted to obtaining further wealth.

Knowledge is our most powerful engine of production.

In common use almost every word has many shades of meaning, and therefore needs to be interpreted by the context.

Civilized countries generally adopt gold or silver or both as money.

The price of every thing rises and falls from time to time and place to place; and with every such change the purchasing power of money changes so far as that thing goes.

The most reckless and treacherous of all theorists is he who professes to let facts and figures speak for themselves.

Nature's action is complex: and nothing is gained in the long run by pretending that it is simple, and trying to describe it in a series of elementary propositions.

In every age poets and social reformers have tried to stimulate the people of their own time to a nobler life by enchanting stories of the virtues of the heroes of old.

He’d used the amulet to read my thoughts again. I pictured smacking him in the face.

Educate yourself to the highest degree.

Give joy, smiles, happiness, goodness and kindness to every person you meet.

There are a lot of areas where we cooperate, fight against ISIL, for example. Here, Germany was able to contribute to a certain extent in certain areas.

I think the dot-com boom and bust represented the end of the beginning. The industry is more mature today.

We have severely underestimated the Russians, the extent of the country and the treachery of the climate. This is the revenge of reality.

Television is a very intimate experience. It's in your home, you watch it in your PJs and while you're folding towels.

He knew the precise psychological moment when to say nothing.

Our correspondences have wings - paper birds that fly from my house to yours - flocks of ideas crisscrossing the country. Once opened, a connection is made. We are not alone in the world.

I will not fear, for you are ever with me and you will never leave me to face my perils alone.