Commodity exchanges have a lot of advantages. One, you are helping transparency. Two, they are not political. It's institutional building. It can survive any environment, in theory.

Brunch is boring, but that's part of the charm of it.

Singapore has been incredibly well-managed. It was created out of the swamp, with a strong emotional idea: a safe place for mostly Chinese, but accepting other cultures and other races.

At the end, the key thing is you've got to live with yourself. That's the real test. Everything else is fleeting.

Luckily the whole world is not like me, or else, there would be no world.

Possessing things is not that interesting. Living in a grand environment to show myself and others that I have wealth has zero appeal.

I felt I was owned by possessions.

California is a place of invention, a place of courage, a place of vision, a place of the future. People who made California what it is were willing to take risks, think outside convention and build.

I can drive. Let's just say you don't want to be in the passenger seat.

If you have things and if you are a perfectionist, which I am, you have to really tend to them, and it takes energy away from other things.

I don't get that much enjoyment out of saying 'I own it.'

Trials are used by God to teach you dependence on His grace rather than on your strength.

Men never understand what honor is, though they're always talking about it

The more you know the less the better.

I've often heard academics disparage non-academic writing in terms that suggest it could be a negative in the tenure process, irrespective of the quality of academic work under review.

The reactions music evokes are not feelings, but they are the images, memories of feelings.

He has not truly lived who has not lived for others, in sympathy and in harmony with his fellows.

If they're willing to stand at polls for countless hours in the rain, as many did, then I should surely stand up for them here in the halls of Congress.

When I let my hair down, I just let it down. It's more comfortable in my helmet.

Jay-Z's my favorite rapper, but why can't I aspire to be better than him?

One problem with ideas, however valid, is that they are static and impersonal, whereas a person is active and dynamic.