"The past is a puzzle, and every piece matters."
"The only thing standing between you and your goal is the bullshit story you keep telling yourself as to why you can't achieve it."
The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is commonly understood. Indeed the world is ruled by little else. Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influence, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist.
"We are all prisoners of our own desires."