What is called a high standard of living consists, in considerable measure, in arrangements for avoiding muscular energy, for increasing sensual pleasure and enhancing caloric intake above any conceivable nutritional requirement.

It is not necessary to advertise food to hungry people, fuel to cold people, or houses to the homeless.

People who are in a fortunate position always attribute virtue to what makes them so happy.

A very complicated mass of things influences the economy - the speculative effect, government policy, consumer borrowing and spending, the level of technical innovation (which I concede, although everyone emphasizes it too much), and much more - including, of course, the rate of inflation.

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

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

In the old days, land was important as the giver of all things. That period is gone now. Technology and brainpower are all that matters and yet conflicts over land, specially one like on the India-China border, that yields nothing, continue. This is a burden of ancient history that we continue to carry. If tomorrow there is settlement on planet Mars, we will begin to worry if others are interested.