The financial system in its current condition poses an existential threat to Western democracy far exceeding any terrorist threat.

We wouldn't care so much what people thought of us if we knew how seldom they did.

You heard people say forty was the new thirty and fifty was the new forty and sixty was the new forty-five, but you never heard anybody say eighty was the new anything. Eighty was just eighty.

The standard personality type for a writer is a shy megalomaniac.

The City is, in terms of its basic functioning, a far-off country of which we know little.

The person doing the worrying experiences it as a form of love; the person being worried about experiences it as a form of control.

But knowing that you had gone wrong, and knowing how you had gone wrong, were not the same thing as knowing how to put it right.

In other words, RBS had its origins in a failed speculation, a bail-out, and a financial crash so big it helped destroy Scotland's status as a separate nation.

The seven Ps: Proper Planning and Preparation Prevent Piss-Poor Performance

It's as if people used the invention of seat belts as an opportunity to take up drunk driving.

People would rather earn 60 grand in an area where their neighbours earn 40, than earn 80 in an area where their neighbours earn a hundred.

Turn your self-hell into self-help.

History is yet to show us a person who stumbled across happiness while walking on the negative path.

Every time we launch a feature, people yell at us.

Forget college, forget everything else, just educate yourself, your world around you, everything around you.

I think it would be just to say the most essential characteristic of mind is memory, using this word in its broadest sense to include every influence of past experience on present reactions.

A primary goal of teaching anything is the advantage that learning gives to people over their competitors who haven't been as well taught.

If it's not fun, you are not doing it right.

I don't think people should do things that they're not comfortable with, unless they want to stretch themselves in that way and challenge themselves.

All my spells smell like burnt hair lately.

when she thought it over afterwards it occurred to her that she ought to have wondered at this, but at the time it all seemed quite natural