When the capital development of a country becomes a by-product of the activities of a casino, the job is likely to be ill-done

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.

She is young and beautiful. She has no problems with men.

I could never run from the half of me that danced in the dark.

Young women from a very young age are taught that life will be easier if you can just turn on the charming smile and say very little and be complacent and docile and sweet.

Look at his face. I bet his cornflakes try to crawl out of the bowl.

Every true history must force us to remember that the past was once as real as the present and as uncertain as the future.

It doesn't so much matter what one loves. To love is the transfiguring thing.

I may have grown up in the Age of Aquarius, but I'm growing old in the Age of the Acronym.

It doesn't matter so much where the material comes from, as long as it's good.

I wanted to be in my daughter's life, and I decided I didn't want to do music anymore because I was compromising myself too much and I wasn't loving what I was doing.

If our lives are out of tune with the music of the gospel, we must tune them up.