Everyone knows, or has strongly suspected, that capital theory is difficult.

This whole force is utterly demoralized by victory. There seems to be neither head nor tail.

You shall hear a good account of me or of my death.

It is much simpler and easier to collect and caress the trophies of our democratic inheritance than it is to fashion up-to-date tools with which to work on our current problems.

When the financial crisis arrived, it seemed to me that this was something I had to make a movie about.

Forgive me, I must start by pointing out that three years after our horrific financial crisis caused by financial fraud, not a single financial executive has gone to jail, and that's wrong.

I sort of plunged into filmmaking. I decided I'd jump off the deep end, so I started thinking about what kind of a movie I should try to make.

When the U.S. government is serious about doing something that's complicated and difficult, it can do it.

I'd been a film maniac since I was very young; by the time I was eight or nine years old, I was hooked on movies.

A fierce and sentimental addiction to forms makes us shudder at change. It is much easier to say that the system is all right-only the people need to be improved.

I'm actually all in favor of freeing the entrepreneurial spirit - but it turns out, interestingly, that you actually need very strict regulations to free the entrepreneurial spirit.

Keep your promises and be consistent. Be the kind of person others can trust.

It hadn't been so long ago, yet sometimes she felt that she'd been an altogether different person back then.

Sometimes I like her calm, unwild, gentle as a sleeping child, and wonder as she lies, a fur ring, curled upon my lap, unstirring -- is it me or Tibbles purring?

...but sovereign borders will mean Water haves and have-nots.

The skill of letting go can be learned, and once learned you will enjoy living much more spontaneously.

I can get motivated seeing a kid at my sons school overcome a learning disability.

I’m a bowling pin, even when I fall I’ll always stand back up.

It's only in the seventies that I put the sticks down and I moved to the front.

Man must not rely on pure reason; he must mix faith with it.

Things are always changing. Part of being successful here is being comfortable with not knowing what's going to happen.