The United States stock market, the most iconic market in global capitalism, is rigged.

Baseball is this intense subculture that actually doesn't speak very much for the larger culture.

The pleasure of rooting for Goliath is that you can expect to win. The pleasure of rooting for David is that, while you don’t know what to expect, you stand at least a chance of being inspired.

As idiotic as optimism can sometimes seem, it has a weird habit of paying off.

When you're trying to create a career as a writer, a little delusional thinking goes a long way.

In Japan, mothers insist on achievement and accomplishment as a sign of love and respect. Thus to fail places children in a highly shamed situation.

A banking system is an act of faith: it survives only for as long as people believe it will.

Above all, recognize that if you have had success, you have also had luck — and with luck comes obligation. You owe a debt, and not just to your Gods. You owe a debt to the unlucky.

A credit default swap was confusing mainly because it wasn't really a swap at all. It was an insurance policy, typically on a corporate bond, with semiannual premium payments and a fixed term.

One absolutely cannot tell, by watching, the difference between a .300 hitter and a .275 hitter. The difference is one hit every two weeks.

People don't like uncertainty, and their minds are tools for making sense of the world, even when the world is senseless.

The past has to inform the present...

I suppose everybody must be always just a little homesick.

I think happiness is a goal all of us can agree on. Let's face it - we all would like to be happy.

If you're offered something, you're not really sure exactly what is that they saw in you that they think is the character so it's a little scary, I feel.

But the world, in its present state, is no place for princesses.

The key to understanding the future is one word: sustainability.

Maybe I'm an emblem of an old era, and I have to move on.

I never saw no miracle of science that did not go from a blessing to a curse.

He will win whose army is animated by the same spirit throughout all its ranks.

I don't care how little your country is, you got a right to run it like you want to. When the big nations quit meddling then the world will have peace.