The fully planned economy, so far from being unpopular, is warmly regarded by those who know it best.

Among all the world's races, some obscure Bedouin tribes possibly apart, Americans are the most prone to misinformation. This is not the consequence of any special preference for mendacity, although at the higher levels of their public administration that tendency is impressive. It is rather that so much of what they themselves believe is wrong.

A good rule of conversation is never answer a foolish question.

Emancipation of belief is the most formidable of the tasks of reform and the one on which all else depends.

We have a swarm of people in the stock market - not out of knowledge, not out of expectation, but out of basically a gambling instinct, the hope that prices will go up.

Man, at least when educated, is a pessimist. He believes it safer not to reflect on his achievements; Jove is known to strike such people down.

When you see reference to a new paradigm you should always, under all circumstances, take cover.