To suggest social action for the public good to the city London is like discussing The Origin of Species to a Bishop sixty years ago.

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.

Theology, philosophy, metaphysics, and quantum physics are merely ways for God to have his smart people believe in him

Custom is second nature and no less powerful.

Nine-tenths of wisdom consists in being wise in time.

For her fifth wedding, the bride wore black and carried a scotch and soda.

Wouldn't you want to be indicted by the govenment for a high crime? It's a great thrill. It's an honor. It's a compliment. It's fun. I'm enjoying every minute of it!

When you're in pain, you're genuinely very, very alive, and that's beautiful. Especially emotional pain.

President Trump and his family are complying with all the ethical rules, everything they need to do to step away from his businesses and be a full-time president.

I'm becoming the Fuhrer - the Fuhrer of Laughs!

The only question is whether you’re going to do it today or tomorrow. If you keep saying you’re going to do it tomorrow, you’ll never do it. You have to get on it today.

I'm trying to get far away from [picturing God as] Gandalf or Santa Claus.