People have tried to control other people by trapping them with debt. A loan can become a harmful and dangerous weapon.

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.

I find the best way to love someone is not to change them, but instead, help them reveal the greatest version of themselves.

Hell will be filled with people who were avidly committed to Christian values.

I have really sinned. I am going to pause now, and sit here on the mound repenting in deepest shame.

What makes me most happy is connecting with others. I love meeting new people, being social, and engaging in empowering discussions.

State what you actually see in someone's work first: objects/space/color/directional flow - then content. Interpret.

Horror films are very functional like comedies. The main thing with a comedy, the big question is "is it funny?" And with horror the question is "is it scary?"

No life is a waste. The only time we waste is the time we spend thinking we're alone.

It is just possible that the tensions in a novel of murder are the simplest and yet most complete pattern of the tensions on which we live in this generation.

Sales = income. The reason so many people have low incomes is that they are poor at selling.

It's good to remind yourself that you're lucky to be working at all. It's very easy to get into the mindset of ingratitude and I battle with it all the time.