Central banks don't have divine wisdom. They try to do the best analysis they can and must be prepared to stand or fall by the quality of that analysis.

You can have everything in life that you want if you just give enough other people what they want.

Time means a lot to me because you see I am also a learner and am often lost in the joy of forever developing.

By desiring little, a poor man makes himself rich.

Don't take the wrong side of an argument just because your opponent has taken the right side.

All satire is blind to the forces liberated by decay. Which is why total decay has absorbed the forces of satire.

It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.

It is wonderful when you don't have the fear, and a lot of the time I don't ... I focus on what needs to be done instead.

One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.

Domination delegates the physical violence on which it rests to the dominated.

We need to keep hope alive and strive to do better.

A good traveller has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.

The two offices of memory are collection and distribution.

Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond logic.

Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.

An idea is salvation by imagination

The mind that finds its way to wild places is the poet's; but the mind that never finds its way back is the lunatic's.

I apologize for lying to you. I promise I won't deceive you except in matters of this sort.

No man for any considerable period can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.

How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.

Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.