The building block of every community is family.

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.

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.

Togetherness is the key to success: a lone bee makes hardly any honey

My experience is that it's precisely the ones who don't know what to do with this life who are all hot and bothered about what they are going to do with another life.

Mr. Rochester never courted Jane Eyre, Tessa pointed out. No, he dressed up as a woman and terrified the poor girl out of her wits. Is that what you want?

In youth, what disappointments of our own making: in age, what disappointments from the nature of things.

Send a wise man on an errand, and say nothing unto him. [Send a wise man on an errand, and say nothing to him.]

Years ago the public used to hound me but now I can go shopping in peace

Like true philosophers I've come to believe that religion is an illusion of childhood, outgrown after proper education.

A slave government is an oligarchy; and one, too, of the most arbitrary and criminal character.

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

I'm not sure I should reveal the sources of my clothes.