"I think the best way to encourage children to read is to give them books that they can't put down."

The key to innovation in economics is to question conventional wisdom.

I'm not here to please everyone. I'm here to be true to myself.

"The past is not dead; it is not even past."

The end of history will be a very sad time. The struggle for recognition, the willingness to risk one's life for a purely abstract goal, the worldwide ideological struggle that called forth daring, courage, imagination, and idealism, will be replaced by economic calculation, the endless solving of technical problems, environmental concerns, and the satisfaction of sophisticated consumer demands.