No society ever seems to have succumbed to boredom. Man has developed an obvious capacity for surviving the pompous reiteration of the commonplace.

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.

I react to what is necessary. I would like to eschew any formula.

According to the experience of all but the most accomplished jugglers, it is easier to keep one ball in the air than many.

In the usual (though certainly not in every) public decision on economic policy, the choice is between courses that are almost equally good or equally bad. It is the narrowest decisions that are most ardently debated. If the world is lucky enough to enjoy peace, it may even one day make the discovery, to the horror of doctrinaire free-enterprisers and doctrinaire planners alike, that what is called capitalism and what is called socialism are both capable of working quite well.

A wrong decision isn't forever; it can always be reversed. The losses from a delayed decision are forever; they can never be retrieved.

The complaints of the privileged are too often confused with the voice of the masses.