If most traders would learn to sit on their hands 50 per cent of the time, they would make a lot more money.

It's very difficult to be different from the rest of the crowd the majority of the time, which by definition is what you're doing if you're a successful trader.

Humanity's savageness is what makes it civilized. Technology, trade, computers, space travel. All are products of competition and conflict.

The worst thing about irony for me is that it attenuates emotion.

Do I get up every morning and ask: am I doing the things that I believe in and am I doing them for the best possible motives? Yes. Unambiguously yes.

Every day is a gift -- start unwrapping them.

Then they both smiled the exact same smile. Narcissism times two. Oh, get a room already.

TV is a huge draw. It's a magnet. Even when I was a policeman, if I was on a police scene and the news showed up, I'd race home to see if I would be on TV for 2 seconds!

Why are we inspired by another person's courage? Maybe because it gives us the sweet and genuine surprise of discovering some trace, at least, of the same courage in ourselves.

I do not believe in death without resurrection. If they kill me I will rise again in the people of El Salvador.

The question is: how you cross uneven ground, how you assemble networks around you.

I want to know the truth, however perverted that may sound.