The markets are moved by animal spirits, and not by reason.

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.

I don't need handcuffs to enslave a woman." -Ranger to Stephanie

there's only one thing we can depends on when we dying, it's faith .

But I can't force everything into the arrangement I'd like. I can't use denial to make everything simple.

Evening's soft solitude Surrounds the dayEmitting precious peace.

I'm a travel enthusiast.

Man for all his genius is but an echo of the original Voice, a reflection of the uncreated Light.

The Red Sox are a religion. Every year we re-enact the agony and the temptation in the Garden. Baseball child's play? Hell, up here in Boston it's a passion play.

There is no other organ quite like the uterus. If men had such an organ they would brag about it. So should we

Do nothing for effect. Do it for truth.

The actual American childhood is less Norman Rockwell and Walt Disney than Nathaniel Hawthorne and Edgar Allan Poe.