Saudi Arabia is a puritanical state that claims a monopoly of wisdom and virtue.

If good history is dispassionate history, it must naturally wait until the passions of the period subside.

By pouring money and goods into devastated regions, foreign aid workers sometimes compound the disruption and debauch the survivors.

Financial crises are like fireworks: they illuminate the sky even as they go pop.

A century ago, petroleum - what we call oil - was just an obscure commodity; today it is almost as vital to human existence as water.

Since the attack on the United States on September 11 2001, and the US retaliation in Afghanistan and Iraq, there must be few people who have not felt a twinge of nostalgia for the cold war.

Economists, like royal children, are not punished for their errors.

Losing your capital is like losing your trousers. It is a real humiliation, and one not to be soon repeated.

Is there any purpose to translating poetry? A poem does not contain information of importance, like a signpost or a warning notice.

Because bankers measure their self-worth in money, and pay themselves a lot of it, they think they're fine fellows and don't need to explain themselves.

Profits in business always depend on the rate of interest: the higher the interest, the higher the rate of profit required.

Walk this way

An amiable weakness.

No amount of manifest absurdity... could deter those who wanted to believe from believing.

A good soul like a good body should be as unobtrusive as possible; in so far as it functions properly, it should not be noticed for good or for ill.

Lawsuits are not pink teas. They are battles.

I'm kind of a huge movie buff and a video game nerd person.

When all is said and done, what is clear is that all lives end before their time.

Transition begins in forgiveness.

I can't selfishly take journeys anymore because I have to take a little boy along with me.

Every abuse ought to be reformed, unless the reform is more dangerous than the abuse itself.