To realize the relative validity of one's convictions and yet stand for them unflinchingly is what distinguishes a civilized man from a barbarian.

Innovation is the market introduction of a technical or organisational novelty, not just its invention.

At the heart of capitalism is creative destruction.

Success depends on intuition, on seeing what afterwards proves true but cannot be established at the moment.

Innovations are changes which cannot be decomposed into infinitessimal steps.

Profit is the payment you get when you take advantage of change.

The ballot is stronger than bullets.

Politicians are like bad horsemen who are so preoccupied with staying in the saddle that they can't bother about where they're going.

We always plan too much and always think too little. We resent a call to thinking and hate unfamiliar argument that does not tally with what we already believe or would like to believe.

We always plan too much and always think too little.

Capitalism inevitably and by virtue of the very logic of its civilization creates, educates and subsidizes a vested interest in social unrest.

In the beginning God created man in His own image, and man has been trying to repay the favor ever since.

Your reign of terror will soon be over, ” he stated confidently.

I like children - fried.

I think that, y'know, they seem to really love music, which means they'll stick with it. I think that Hanson could be really good in a few years, actually!

Different and new is relatively easy. Doing something thats genuinely better is very hard.

There's nothing quite like tobacco: it's the passion of decent folk, and whoever lives without tobacco doesn't deserve to live.

I think that, I'm sure there are gonna be some teachers who are very entrenched in the system, who are going to buy in to what they're being told, as to what the kids are being fed

Our possessions are a trust from God. What we clutch tightly, we lose. What we place in His hands, we will possess.

Last time I checked I was able to throw the ball a little bit.

Heartsick, heartbroken - to know love is to know pain. What could be more common? Even so, each broken heart is so singular that with it we probe the divine.