We are capitalism made flesh.

I hold to the idea that civility, understood as the willingness to engage in public discourse, is the first virtue of citizens.

Ambition is ever tempered by experience. Otherwise, fortune makes fools of us all.

We don't know what the future will bring, but that's because we are ever in the process of creating it, not because it is an alien force to which we have to submit.

Dreams are evidence that we are creatures who produce more meaning than we can ourselves understand.

For every apparent gain, in short, we now observe a balancing danger. This is the world we have created.

Friendship requires a leap, not of faith but of regard.