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

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.

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.

It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life.

If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.

Mother is far too clever to understand anything she does not like.

Without an expectation of success, one is rarely successful.

My cell phone fell off my lap. I was reaching for it in the back.

The things that go wrong often make the best memories.

But in the secret history of anger--one man's silence / lives in the bodies of others.

People who prefer e-books...think that books merely take up space. This is true, but so do your children and Prague and the Sistine Chapel.

Streets crowded with people strolling, or sitting at outdoor cafes. And always, talking, gesturing, singing, laughing. I liked Rome immediately.Everybody was a performer.

I think I've been brought up very well by both my parents. I am very cautious and I think I'm now fit for the world I'm in. They're very much behind my modelling and very supportive.