However, even a strong government can't perform miracles. It needs money from the taxpayers.

Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition there is no shame in being wrong, only in failing to correct our mistakes.

I'm not better than the next trader, just quicker at admitting my mistakes and moving on to the next opportunity.

There is no point in being confident and having a small position.

It's not whether you're right or wrong that's important, but how much money you make when you're right and how much you lose when you're wrong

To others, being wrong is a source of shame; to me, recognizing my mistakes is a source of pride.

The main obstacle to a stable and just world order is the United States.

Now that I have called you on your false accusation, you are using additional smear tactics.

Esperanto was a very useful language, because wherever you went, you found someone to speak with.

Stock market bubbles don't grow out of thin air. They have a solid basis in reality, but reality as distorted by a misconception.

The sovereignty of states must be subordinated to international law and international institutions.

The beauty all around you is insignificant in comparison to the beauty within you.

A committed citizens can move a country.

Only later, much later, too late, did I understand how small she (Mrs Winterson) was to herself. The baby nobody picked up. The uncarried child still inside her.

He leaned over, catching her lowered gaze. “I’m the present, Darlin’.

Brown bird welcomes white wave. Wander no more, dear traveler.

We have Democrats saying dumb things every single day, and Republicans as well.

I hate all explanations; they who make them deceive either themselves or the other party,-generally both.

Just studying Buddhism, then meditating and going to Buddhist monasteries, talking to Buddhist monks, combined with the Thai people themselves, changed the way I look at the world.

I'm alone and outgunned, scared and inexperienced, but I'm right.

If you have the power to create it, you also have the power to transform it.