Race is a part of every conversation in America, whether you know it or not.

You have got to welcome and embrace complexity.

Individual liberty, the basic underpinning of American society, requires constant defense against the encroachment of the state.

Creating a regulatory system that reflects the modern-day realities of financial markets is not as difficult as it may appear.

Resentment is not morally superior to earning money.

Stability is not the way of the world.

The building block of every community is family.

Successful hedge funds will be entrepreneurial; it is the essence of the craft.

The bottom line is that the euro is a failed experiment.

Derivatives trading should be standardized and as much as possible moved to clearinghouses.

If you just set out to be liked you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time and you would achieve nothing.

I think the Iraqi people have shown extraordinary patience and courage in the last few months. They have really put a political system on the way to success, to a real democracy here.

In a sense the whole American comic tradition had been that of social criticism.

A lot of people I went to college with felt like they wanted to pursue theater exclusively, so I don't think that I really was in competition with people that I went to school with.

Flesh-eating by humans is unnecessary, irrational, anatomically unsound, unhealthy, unhygienic, uneconomic, unaesthetic, unkind and unethical. May I elaborate?

The reality is that if you always do what you've always done, you'll always be where you've always been.

I feel like my mum is in heaven sharing a cup of tea with Lady Fate and plotting my life out like a chess game.

The beginning is the word and the end is silence. And in between are all the stories.

We hold our tongues in check because if they are undisciplined they empty the soul of the strength of heavenly grace, and weaken its healthful vigour.

Many great ideas go unexecuted, and many great executioners are without ideas. One without the other is worthless.