Profits in business always depend on the rate of interest: the higher the interest, the higher the rate of profit required.

If good history is dispassionate history, it must naturally wait until the passions of the period subside.

By pouring money and goods into devastated regions, foreign aid workers sometimes compound the disruption and debauch the survivors.

Saudi Arabia is a puritanical state that claims a monopoly of wisdom and virtue.

Financial crises are like fireworks: they illuminate the sky even as they go pop.

A century ago, petroleum - what we call oil - was just an obscure commodity; today it is almost as vital to human existence as water.

Since the attack on the United States on September 11 2001, and the US retaliation in Afghanistan and Iraq, there must be few people who have not felt a twinge of nostalgia for the cold war.

Economists, like royal children, are not punished for their errors.

Losing your capital is like losing your trousers. It is a real humiliation, and one not to be soon repeated.

Is there any purpose to translating poetry? A poem does not contain information of importance, like a signpost or a warning notice.

Because bankers measure their self-worth in money, and pay themselves a lot of it, they think they're fine fellows and don't need to explain themselves.

I would offer congratulations were it not for this tentacle gripping my leg.

My friend thought he was not gonna make it. Then he started thinking positive. Now he's positive he's not gonna make it.

Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week.

Love doesn't necessarily mean bless or agree with, it means sacrifice for and suffer with.

Education is not an affair of 'telling' and being told, but an active and constructive process.

I hope that we start trendsetting [with Everybody Loves Somebody], you know, like having bigger movies also include that. Because I think it'll definitely change a lot of what's going on right now.

I would rather suffer with coffee than be senseless.

Success and failure, triumph and disaster. That is the rhythm of life in the garden.

I don't think God cares if you are rich or poor. God loves you anyway. But if you want to be rich, then choose your church & preacher carefully.