And very often the influence exerted on a person's character by the amount of his income is hardly less, if it is less, than that exerted by the way in which it is earned.

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.

Unless the Self is known, the power of the Self (swa satta) cannot arise.

You've got drama too?' 'Doesn't everyone?' 'A side effect of breathing, I guess.

The real technology -behind all our other technologies- is language. It actually creates the world our consciousness lives in.

I think that music makers just really bless the planet.

Once you wake up and smell the coffee, it's hard to go back to sleep.

Pain I keep to myself; my music is for entertainment purposes and I always have that in mind.

During Lent, let us find concrete ways to overcome our indifference.

The secret of all success is to know how to deny yourself. Prove that you can control yourself, and you are an educated man; and without this all other education is good for nothing.

You should always waste time when you don't have any. Time is not the boss of you. Rule 408.

I have been to Libya and walked the streets of Benghazi myself.