There's a certain part of the contented majority who love anybody who is worth a billion dollars.

This is a world inhabited not by people who have to be persuaded to believe but by people who want an excuse to believe.

We have escapist fiction, so why not escapist biography?

There's no question that in my lifetime, the contrast between what I called private affluence and public squalor has become very much greater.

In central banking as in diplomacy, style, conservative tailoring, and an easy association with the affluent count greatly and results far much less.

There is a common tendency to ignore the poor or to develop some rationalisation for the good fortune of the fortunate.

By all but the pathologically romantic, it is now recognized that this is not the age of the small man.