Shale gas, if left to flourish, could create several hundred thousand more jobs.

Banking, I would argue, is the most heavily regulated industry in the world. Regulations don't solve things. Supervision solves things.

You cannot just keep borrowing more and more and keep spending more and more without eventually having a day of reckoning.

I see myself as a private-equity investor that helps rebuild companies. Restructuring is a cottage industry in that there aren't that many serious practitioners.

Ships are a strange kind of commodity because they're very lumpy, very big individual units, but they're commodities.

I'm pro-trade, but I'm pro-sensible trade, not pro-trade that is to the disadvantage of the American worker.

If you want to do something to destroy consumer spending, just eat away at the middle class because the other problem we have is the structural problem of middle class America.

I think what we have to do is figure out how to make sure we get the benefits of improved technology and yet cope with the dislocation that it will inevitably produce in certain industries.

When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.

Resistances do not derive from a few heterogeneous principles

Masculinity is part of a binary and requires its opposite, since, in the absence of femininity, masculinity would have no meaning.

All top international athletes wake up in the morning feeling tired and go to bed feeling very tired.

When I could no longer cling to my normal supports I discovered that true support and real safety lie far beyond the structures of our world.

A good man therefore is a standing lesson to us all.

Sorrow burns up a great amount of shallowness.

You can't sustain [anger]. You become bitter. Nothing's going to change. Anger leads to resentment, then to spiking your orange juice, then to martyrdom.

When you listen with empathy to another person, you give that person psychological air.

The myth about the angel who rebelled against his Lord is the most beautiful of all myths, the proudest, the most revolutionary, the most immortal of them all.