There is no room for being creative in today’s business... Except for finding creative ways to be inefficient.

In order to change the system, we need to change our ideas.

The essence of the contemporary monetary system is creation of money, out of nothing, by private banks’ often foolish lending.

Those who condemn the immorality of liberal capitalism do so in comparison with a society of saints that has never existed—and never will

The notion of the competitiveness of countries, on the model of the competitiveness of companies, is nonsense.

Sustaining growth is the century's big challenge.

The meaning of existence is that you have simply existed at all.

He who trusts the world, the world betrays him.

The more sects we have the better. They are all getting somebody in (to the Church) that the others could not: and even with the numerous divisions we are all doing tolerably well.

The supreme maxim in scientific philosophising is this: wherever possible, logical constructions are to be substituted for inferred entities.

Grizzly bears eat people without the benefit of music.

Thomas Jefferson spoke of certain truths as self-evident. He did not say that these truths were self-explanatory or that they were self-operating.

What can that man fear who takes care to please a Being that is able to crush all his adversaries?

Everything can be killed except nostalgia for the kingdom, we carry it in the color of our eyes, in every love affair, in everything that deeply torments and unties and tricks.

Outward appearance is nothing to Him if it is not an expression of the inner.

Did a man really walk on the moon? I saw plenty of documentaries on it, and I really wondered.