As idiotic as optimism can sometimes seem, it has a weird habit of paying off.

Icelandic people are inbred. And they have a sense of themselves as genetically special, and a history of risk-taking because they make their living on the high seas fishing. Assets generally rose in value during this period, and so it looked like they actually knew what they were doing.

There's something bad in everything good and something good in everything bad.

In Wall Street now, you have to hide what you're doing. It's more fun when you don't have to do that. But I don't think its sense of purpose has changed at all.

Those who know don't tell and those who tell don't know.

Commitment, by its nature, frees us from ourselves and, while it stands us in opposition to some, it joins us with others similarly committed. Commitment moves us from the mirror trap of the self absorbed with the self to the freedom of a community of shared values.

The sports world is an echo chamber. All it takes is one quote from a general manager and a thousand sports columns bloom.