Every short statement about economics is misleading (with the possible exception of my present one).

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.

I wish I knew what it was like, to find a place where I belong.

Somehow I have the feeling that in some book is the great treasure I've been looking for all my life.

It was a palace, made entirely of gold, sitting on an island of silver snow at the very top of the world. East of the sun, and west of the moon.

The three foundations of judgement: Bold Design, Constant Practice, and Frequent Mistakes.

There is no nation in the whole world desiring war.

Broad tolerance in the matter of beliefs is necessarily a part of the new ethics.

(Andy Roddick's) a different kind of guy. I don't spend a lot of time with him. His coach in the past (Tarik Benhabiles), I didn't have a lot of time for at all. He was a bigger problem than Andy.

Minimize your therbligs until it becomes automatic; this doubles your effective lifetime - and thereby gives time to enjoy butterflies and kittens and rainbows.

With all my ideas and follies I could one day found a corporate company for the propagation of beautiful but unreliable imaginings.

...the taste of the finely-worded truth rolled upon the tongue as its thought is revolved in the mind.