I'm not a pessimist by nature. I'm not someone who sees things in a bleak way.

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.

To the inexperienced and naive, creativity often looks like magic. But in truth creativity is rooted in the fertile grounds of knowledge and many hours of hard work and thinking.

A person must first learn how to walk on their own before you can guide them in the right direction.

Don't turn over rocks if you don't want to see the pale creatures who live under them.

Well, I loved variety in television, I loved sketch comedy. At 'Saturday Night Live,' I stayed almost seven years.

Being a warrior doesn't mean necessarily you need to win and succeed. It's just a spiritual condition of living a worthwhile life.

But the heart has a mind of its own and it always gets what it wants, especially when it's dying.

I've never been someone to count lines, look at it that way.

You walk out in the street, we don't know if we're going to get across. It's a test.

At bottom each “exact” science is, and must be speculative, and its chief tool of research, too rarely used with both courage and judgement, is the regulated imagination.

I've always enjoyed Acting. Acting is acting