A well-designed welfare state can actually encourage people to take chances with their jobs and be more, not less, open to changes.

Making rich people richer doesn't make the rest of us richer.

People 'over-produce' pollution because they are not paying for the costs of dealing with it.

The best way to boost the economy is to redistribute wealth downward, as poorer people tend to spend a higher proportion of their income.

There are different ways to organise capitalism. Free-market capitalism is only one of them-and not a very good one at that.

95% of Economics is common sense deliberately made complicated.

95 percent of economics is common sense made complicated, and even for the remaining 5 percent, the essential reasoning, if not all the technical details, can be explained in plain terms.

The Korean economic miracle was the result of a clever and pragmatic mixture of market incentives and state direction.

The washing machine changed the world more than the Internet.

[Good managers] know that people have 'good' sides and 'bad' sides and that the secret of good management is in magnifying the former and toning down the latter.

Countries are poor not because their people are lazy; their people are 'lazy' because they are poor.

I have never learned how to tell somebody something good about myself

Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.

sometimes i am not sure.if i am writing the poemor the poemis writing me.

Stop the poverty! Where do they think they are going?!

There are some things that can be learned by the head, but Christ crucified can only be learned by the heart

I need a lover that won't drive me crazy, someone that knows the meaning of hey, hit the highway.

What do you want most to do? That's what I have to keep asking myself, in the face of difficulties.

Sexual boredom is ousting sexual deviance as the problem.

By Fate full many a heart has been undone, And many a sprightly rose made woe-begone; Plume thee not on thy lusty youth and strength: Full many a bud is blasted ere its bloom.

Do what you feel is right, baby.