If more than 10% of the people like a painting, you can be sure it's bad.

You have to choose between trusting to the natural stability of gold and the natural stability of the honesty and intelligence of the members of the government. And, with due respect to these gentlemen, I advise you, as long as the capitalist system lasts, to vote for gold.

I finished my first book seventy-six years ago. I offered it to every publisher on the English-speaking earth I had ever heard of. Their refusals were unanimous: and it did not get into print until, fifty years later; publishers would publish anything that had my name on it.

We should have had socialism already, but for the socialists, am quite willing to drop the name if dropping it will help me to get the thing.

Fear is choosing the safe course

If you take too long in deciding what to do with your life, you'll find you've done it.

You may well ask me why...I took the time to write [books]. I can only reply that I do not know. There was no why about it. I had to: that was all.