Any new financial order for the world must tackle the three chief challenges of our age.

If good history is dispassionate history, it must naturally wait until the passions of the period subside.

By pouring money and goods into devastated regions, foreign aid workers sometimes compound the disruption and debauch the survivors.

Saudi Arabia is a puritanical state that claims a monopoly of wisdom and virtue.

Financial crises are like fireworks: they illuminate the sky even as they go pop.

A century ago, petroleum - what we call oil - was just an obscure commodity; today it is almost as vital to human existence as water.

Since the attack on the United States on September 11 2001, and the US retaliation in Afghanistan and Iraq, there must be few people who have not felt a twinge of nostalgia for the cold war.

Economists, like royal children, are not punished for their errors.

Losing your capital is like losing your trousers. It is a real humiliation, and one not to be soon repeated.

Is there any purpose to translating poetry? A poem does not contain information of importance, like a signpost or a warning notice.

Because bankers measure their self-worth in money, and pay themselves a lot of it, they think they're fine fellows and don't need to explain themselves.

The paper burns, but the words fly free.

Surely the better way is to pursue a generous orthodoxy, seeing disagreements in the context of the greater agreements which bind us together.

I obviously swear by yoga for staying mentally, physically, emotionally, and spiritually balanced.

There are two types of actors: those who say they don't want to be famous and those who are liars.

I'm very cerebral. I like to think things through.

This I believe: I believe there is no God.

Love is powerful. It can bring the gods to their knees.

There are times when you just get down, you feel like nobody likes you. We're in high school forever. It's just what we do with it.

Marathon running is a terrible experience: monotonous, heavy, and exhausting.

God fully knows himself and all things actual and possible in one simple and eternal act.