Let us have the candor to acknowledge that what we call "the economy" or "the free market" is less and less distinguishable from warfare.
It seems not to have been written. It is the quintessence of life. It is the basic truth.
Drop the last year into the silent limbo of the past. Let it go, for it was imperfect, and thank God that it can go.
In every age 'the good old days' were a myth. No one ever thought they were good at the time. For every age has consisted of crises that seemed intolerable to the people who lived through them.
Poetry is as vital to thinking as knowledge.
Bureaucracies are designed to perform public business. But as soon as a bureaucracy is established, it develops an autonomous spiritual life and comes to regard the public as its enemy.
This nation was built by men who took risks-pioneers who were not afraid of the wilderness, businessmen who were not afraid of failure, scientists who were not afraid of the truth, thinkers who were not afraid of progress, dreamers who were not afraid of action.
Take care to be an economist in prosperity. There is no fear of your being one in adversity.
The devil is an optimist if he thinks he can make people worse than they are.
I used to say that theatre was my favourite thing. But the more I do film, the more I appreciate it.
There 's nothing like being used to a thing.