Manipulating currencies is when you're going into the marketplace and buying something in large amounts to depress the value of the currency.

The government has the right to change laws and rules and regulations.

You read constantly that banks are lobbying regulators and elected officials as if this is inappropriate. We don't look at it that way.

Don't do anything stupd. And don't waste money. Let everybody else waste money and do stupid things; then we'll buy them.

Just because you have a good hand today doesn't mean it's good tomorrow. And some of the things we're doing may become very disadvantageous at some point.

My daughter asked me when she came home from school, "What's the financial crisis?" and I said, it's something that happens every five to seven years.

Our plate is full. We have a lot to do building our company organically and that is our key focus.

We're going to do the right thing for the company and our customers, all things considered.

Businesses can be opaque. They are complex. You don't know how aircraft engines work either.

We have built a very good company, and we're proud of it. We also recognize that much of it has been built on the shoulders of the thousands of employees and leaders who have worked here before us.

You never know exactly how new policies are going to work. That doesn't mean you shouldn't try them.

Beds ain't for sleeping, and clothes ain't for bed.

There is something infantile in the presumption that somebody else (parents in the case of children, God in the case of adults) has a responsibility to give your life meaning and point.

I bet all I had on a thing called love

Passion is what gets you through the hardest times that might otherwise make strong men weak, or make you give up.

A living museum must surely see itself as a locus of argument. A breathing art institution is not a lockup but a moveable feast.

Words are hotter than flames. Words are wetter than water.

Feeling someone else's anger is bad; being left alone is worse.

Life's too short to be sat at home writing all the time.

I'm in a really lucky position where people will be interested in whatever I do, but what I do is sing.

It's always a problem - you've got to figure out a place to put your body. You've got to wake up in the morning and deal with the fact that you have this body to lug around.