Typical reaction to scrutiny: attack and mock messenger and message, minimize the problem, hope attention dies down.

Beware of economists who hide assumptions.

Is this complicated, risky [banking] system the best we can have?

The politics of banking is bad everywhere, including UK. Eurozone has more problems, unhealthy symbiosis.

the purpose of life is the life of purpose

Cause honey your soulcould never grow oldits evergreen

Experience is making mistakes and learning from them.

I do know that for all the artists it's very important to speak in a vernacular that can be understood by everyone.

True intelligence very readily conceives of an intelligence superior to its own; and this is why truly intelligent men are modest.

Mankind has become so much one family that we cannot insure our own prosperity except by insuring that of everyone else.

The Bible is literature, not dogma.

There is no doubt in my view that Donald Trump will be the Republican nominee.

It was a small thing, but it was a thing, and things have a way of either dying or growing, and it wasn’t dying.

I'll keep battling for that No. 1 spot.