In truth, the gold standard is already a barbarous relic.

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.

Adversities define what you're made of. Success is you're reward for overcoming them

A dream doesn't die because it has no truth. It dies because you fail to nurture it.

If people will bring dynamite into a powder factory, they must expect explosions.

She says I know you changed, I never see you cause you always busy doing thangs

I do not mistrust the future; I do not fear what is ahead. For our problems are large, but our heart is larger.

The intensity of being in front of all these incredible musicians and tremendous conductors in these elaborate halls can be overwhelming.

There's life alone in duty done, And rest alone in striving.

Your reality, isn’t restricted by this cell we live in. If you read something, if you study something, you transcend any cell you’re inside of

I got my MacBook in the first year at university, and that's really when I stopped playing live instruments and started geeking out on my laptop.

In fact, the very phrase "teaching creative writing" sounds to me oxymoronic. How can you teach someone to be creative?