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

Originality is something that is easily exaggerated, especially by authors contemplating their own work.

Talk of revolution is one of avoiding reality.

Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite.

One of the best ways of avoiding necessary and even urgent tasks is to seem to be busily employed on things that are already done.

She is a reflection of comfortable middle-class values that do not take seriously the continuing unemployment. What I particularly regret is that she does not take seriously the intellectual decline. Having given up the Empire and the mass production of industrial goods, Britain's future lay in its scientific and artistic pre-eminence. Mrs Thatcher will be long remembered for the damage she has done.

Even in such a time of madness as the late twenties, a great many man in Wall Street remained quite sane. But they also remained very quiet. The sense of responsibility in the financial community for the community as a whole is not small. It is nearly nil. Perhaps this is inherent. In a community where the primary concern is making money, one of the necessary rules is to live and let live. To speak out against madness may be to ruin those who have succumbed to it. So the wise in Wall Street are nearly always silent. The foolish thus have the field to themselves. None rebukes them.