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

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.

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.

If you're rich you can buy books. If you're poor, you need a library.

Wisdom... is often an abstraction associated not with fact or reality but with the man who asserts it and the manner of its assertion.

Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof.

The individual serves the planning system not by supplying it with savings and the resulting capital; he serves it far more by consuming its products.