I'm concerned with China growing at double or triple the rate of the West, that there will be tensions. One needs to do something to start addressing misunderstandings and frustration.

My personal taxes are 53% of my taxable income. That's 36% on the federal level and 17% for state and local.

Down cycles are not fun. But they form the basis for enormous future profitability

For future geopolitical stability and global prosperity, we need to build a culture of greater trust and understanding between China, America and the rest of the world.

My biggest job really is to figure other people out. I need to understand what makes a person tick.

It's wonderful to learn about new cultures and to be able to travel easily to so many countries.

I've lived through periods of illiquidity before. Asset prices come down. The economy slows or even goes into recession. Then the cycle re-starts. We buy at lower prices with less leverage.

I'm not feeling undertaxed. Tax reform is an important issue. You have to have an inherent sense of fairness.

If I get angry, it's obvious. I don't have to say much.

No god craves weaklings.

In her first passion woman loves her lover In all the others all she loves is love.

Those who do not think about their own sins make up for it by thinking incessantly about the sins of others.

The kind of life you live, your disposition, your very nature, will be determined by your thoughts, of which your acts are but the outward expression. Thought is the seed of action.

To speake of an Vsurer at the table marres the wine.

The City is, in terms of its basic functioning, a far-off country of which we know little.

I'd seen too many troubling things to be easy in my mind. I knew too much and not enough. I'd better go out, I said to myself, I'd better go out again.

World will suffice for me in the future.

I don't think that players learn how to play any other aspect of the game in high school or college.

I confess, I'm not the biggest fan of Twilight.