Banking was conceived in iniquity and born in sin.

It is easy to dodge our responsibilities, but we cannot dodge the consequences of dodging our responsibilities.

Bankers own the earth. Take it away from them, but leave them the power to create money and control credit, and with a flick of a pen they will create enough to buy it back.

The modern banking system manufactures money out of nothing. The process is perhaps the most astounding piece of sleight-of-hand that was ever invented.

The modern banking system manufactures money out of nothing.

But if you want to continue to be slaves of the banks and pay the cost of your own slavery, then let bankers continue to create money and control credit.

A pessimist looks at his glass and says it is half empty; an optimist looks at it and says it is half full.

If you want to remain a slave to the banks and want them to pay the cost of your own slavery, then let them continue the issue of currency control and regulate the money supply of the nation.

The individual source of the statistics may easily be the weakest link.

The Government are very keen on amassing statistics - they collect them, add them, raise them to the nth power, take the cube root and prepare wonderful diagrams.

Our imagination is bigger than this universe.

The world I once knew as a boy has changed dramatically . . . I don’t even recognize the world we live in today.

Tanzanians are some of the friendliest you'll ever meet, insisting on a welcoming smile and wave as they pass you on the streets, exclaiming 'Jambo!'

[On going into politics:] My husband went to bed with Debbie Reynolds and he woke up with Eleanor Roosevelt.

He could play the guitar just like ringing a bell.

My dream had been shattered, but then re-created, fashioned into something with more meaning and becoming more precious.

I don't believe in praying to win.

Never say never - I certainly have those dreams, and I hope that it happens at some point,I hope I get to see those stage lights.

Nothing kinder than strangers. Nothing stranger than kindness.

[Jazz musicians] couldn't cut rock. I had to be more limited and specific about what I was doing.