Stability is not the way of the world.

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.

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.

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

We all wear masks, and the time comes when we cannot remove them without removing some of our own skin.

You know after any truly initiating experience that you are part of a much bigger whole. Life is not about you henceforward, but you are about life.

Once the demands of necessity and propriety have been met, the rest that one owns belongs to the poor.

That soul that can Be honest is the only perfect man.

Moving on doesn't mean forgetting.

Do blood clots get stuck in your teeth? What if someone's anemic; are you hungry again an hour later? Has anyone ever bitten you? If you run out of blood, do you shrivel up like a really old orange?

Memory does not make films, it makes photographs.

It is a simple feat of scientific electrical engineering — only expensive — blind, faint-hearted, doubting world.

I want to be wherever you are.

My father was a banker, but he was an independent spirit. He was a very good pianist and very much into music.