I am just a normal human being - I am alive! Why is anyone surprised that I am human? Like many New Yorkers, I have a multifaceted life.

The gains from technology must be channeled to a broader base of the population than has benefited so far.

In the history of modern capitalism, crises are the norm, not the exception.

I think investing in a good education has been key for me, although the investment was more in time than money.

I am not going to say I told you so, but I did.

The global financial crisis - missed by most analysts - shows that most forecasters are poor at pricing in economic/financial risks, let alone geopolitical ones.

You have to eventually nationalize US banks, you have to take the problem by the horns. In my view actually most of the US banking system is insolvent.

I think it's true that the 1 Percent or the elite are living in a world of, maybe, excessive privilege, and they don't fully realize how much pain and suffering, how much anxiety exists out there.

We're essentially continuing a system where profits are privatized and...losses socialized.

Once you run current-account deficits, you depend on the kindness of strangers. This might be the beginning of the end of the American empire.

Technology is spurring innovation, and the so-called "demographic dividend" has brought change.

Ability can take you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there

You see life is predictable. What you do with your time now will dictate how your life will become tomorrow.

A friend asks, "Tell me one word which is significant in any kinds of relationship." Another friend says, "LISTEN!

I love to roast vegetables - carrots, fennel, and so on. I also love to mash or puree pretty much any vegetable!

The gun legislation was doomed the minute it became associated with the words common sense.

It only hurt once, from beginning to end.

If there’s a heaven for me, I’m sure it has a beach attached.

When I first started out, I got criticism for the way I looked. I think, now, it's a good thing because, why would you want to look like everyone else?

I went to school for 12 years, and uni for four, but I learnt more about human existence in the 30 hours it took my first child to be born than I did in all those years of study.