Anticompetitive practices hurt Chinese private firms nearly as much as foreign ones.

I'm a straightforward person. I like to be direct with people.

I don't see (subprime mortgage market troubles) imposing a serious problem. I think it's going to be largely contained.

It's a safe banking system, a sound banking system. Our regulators are on top of it. This is a very manageable situation.

Our overriding goal in restructuring our financial architecture should be that taxpayers never again have to save a failing financial institution.

There's always light at the end of the tunnel, right? It just depends on how long the tunnel is.

I never once considered that it was appropriate to put taxpayer money on the line in resolving Lehman Brothers.

In just about every area of society, there's nothing more important than ethics.

Economic growth and environmental protection are not at odds. They're opposite sides of the same coin if you're looking at longer-term prosperity.

Every global concern - economic, environmental or security-related - can be addressed more effectively when the U.S. and China work together.

Regulation needs to catch up with innovation.

Poets, like fighters, both reap the benefits of roadwork.

I failed many times, but I always found myself stronger and wiser.

He was massive, a veritable Arnold Schwarzenegger of a cat, with a wide, handsome face and a proud, lionish expression.

The srongest love is the love which is not afraid to show the weakness

Don't cater to stupidity.

Real love cannot be deceived because it wants nothing outside of itself

Thou oughtest to know, since thou livest near the gods. [Lat., Scire, deos quoniam propius contingis, oportet.]

The money that we possess is the instrument of liberty, that which we lack and strive to obtain is the instrument of slavery.

I love men - everything about them: the way they look, the way they smell, the way they feel. I love their minds.

Of all the weapons in the world, love is the most dangerous.