There are different ways to organise capitalism. Free-market capitalism is only one of them-and not a very good one at that.

Making rich people richer doesn't make the rest of us richer.

People 'over-produce' pollution because they are not paying for the costs of dealing with it.

The best way to boost the economy is to redistribute wealth downward, as poorer people tend to spend a higher proportion of their income.

95% of Economics is common sense deliberately made complicated.

95 percent of economics is common sense made complicated, and even for the remaining 5 percent, the essential reasoning, if not all the technical details, can be explained in plain terms.

The Korean economic miracle was the result of a clever and pragmatic mixture of market incentives and state direction.

The washing machine changed the world more than the Internet.

A well-designed welfare state can actually encourage people to take chances with their jobs and be more, not less, open to changes.

[Good managers] know that people have 'good' sides and 'bad' sides and that the secret of good management is in magnifying the former and toning down the latter.

Countries are poor not because their people are lazy; their people are 'lazy' because they are poor.

Broken wings don't mend that way

They make glorious shipwreck who are lost in seeking worlds.

Make something new with your life, with your own mind and hands.'

I personally can't think of anything less sacrosanct than a bad book or even a mediocre book.

Life is a roller coaster, you have your ups and downs unless you fall off.

I'd been a fanatic of movies since I was a wee lad, so I got into the films before I got into the comics.

Our life must once have end; in vain we fly From following Fate; e'en now, e'en now, we die.

Much of spirituality today is an effort to change God to suit us. But he's not going to become more like us, we need to become more like him.

I really love laughing.

If solace is any sort of succor to someone, that is sufficient. I believe in the faith of people, whatever faith they may have.