Paper currency has hitherto been regarded with suspicion, as insecure.

Your thoughts and emotions are yours alone.

In brief, egoism in its modern interpretation, is the antithesis, not of altruism, but of idealism.

There is never enough gold to redeem all the currency in circulation.

There is no word more generally misinterpreted than the word egoism, in its modern sense.

But the egoist has no ideals, for the knowledge that his ideals are only his ideals, frees him from their domination. He acts for his own interest, not for the interest of ideals.

The business of a bank is to lend money; which amounts, nowadays, to lending credit.

There is no other who experiences your thoughts or your feelings.

Large sums were paid for the use of money, because the available amount of gold and silver was far less than was needed to carry on the commercial transactions of the times.

Accordingly, when the supply of gold runs short, the security behind the notes is diminished, the loaning of notes is restricted or suspended, and the panic follows.

At present, financial crises occur, chiefly because the paper currency is redeemable in gold only.

Do I look as pretty as I feel?

We are friends for life. When we’re together the years fall away. Isn’t that what matters? To have someone who can remember with you? To have someone who remembers how far you’ve come?

If there was one thing I had learned. . . it was that politics was a damn dirty business.

We can pay our debts to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.

If you're mad at someone for being excited and inspired by your art then you're doing it wrong.

What I like best about underwater photography is giving a visual voice to the invisible. What I like least is the prospect of drowning.

I think freedom means freedom for everybody.

Living the past is a dull and lonely business; looking back strains the neck muscles, causing you to bump into people not going your way.

I have a secret stash of Nutella that I pull out when necessary. That chocolate-hazelnut combo is my wife's kryptonite.

I'm the type of person who feels I have to prove myself first.