It's ok to say I don't know. Realizing this earlier in my career would have put me more at ease.

The challenge of our generation, whether it's young lawyers, young investment bankers, is to make capitalism work for people not just around the corner, but for people all around the world.

When you go to a Japense wedding, make sure that you tie the ribbon on the present tightly because if you don't, you may imply that you don't think the marriage will last.

It is important to understand that the most important currency is social debt. Doing things for others. In order to get, you have to give.

All organisms rely on exchange. They form symbiotic partnerships in order to obtain the energy that they need to survive. Energy is the currency of nature.

Money numbs your senses. People who touched paper money and then placed their hands in hot burning water didn't feel as much pain as those who hadn't touched money.

On a biological level, the brain registers money as something valuable - even a dollar bill which has no intrinsic value, it's just paper.

Money is really like blood. You need it to live but it isn't the point of life.

Just the idea of making money can increase your skin conductancy, meaning there's a current of excitement.

Researchers have compared brain scans of those people who are making money to those high on cocaine and found that them to be almost identical. Money has a biological and psychological effect on us.

The oldest and most important currency is debt.

Adapt to every circumstance.

It was an alien place, as much inhuman as it was ungodly. There was no life in this place. It was a different world altogether.This world was dead.

If you look into your own heart, and you find nothing wrong there, what is there to worry about? What is there to fear?

When you write for very young children what they want is something familiar and safe and stereotyped.

I was poor once, I didn't like it, I don't want to be poor again.

Get your sense of outrage back, and your sense of defiance and spirit back, and try to put these pieces together and confront the excesses of empire at every turn.

But I don't sit down at dinner and have clever ideas.

One day you are an apprentice, and everybody's pet; the next, you are coldly expected to deliver. There is never sufficient warning that the second day is coming.

The condition of your birth doesn't determine the outcome of your life. This is America.

And the commercials would have sickened a goat raised on barbed wire and broken beer bottles.