By a continuing process of inflation, government can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens.

The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones.

It is ideas, not vested interests, which are dangerous for good or evil.

Successful investing is anticipating the anticipations of others.

I've never studied the classics, but I'd like to. My teacher offered to show me how the Greeks were able to sculpt someone perfectly. From there, you can go off and experiment - sort of like jazz. Once you learn to play anything, you can break the form and go and do something even bigger.

I've noticed that my resolutions involve me not doing stuff that I wasn't going to do anyway so here's something more positive. I'm going to retrain as a Latin teacher in a provincial public school.

We are really battling, today in the U.S., keeping science education in the forefront at the elementary level, and that's where the research shows that kids get interested.

Education doesn't just make us smarter. It makes us whole.