If you roll dice, you know that the odds are one in six that the dice will come up on a particular side. So you can calculate the risk. But, in the stock market, such computations are bull - you don't even know how many sides the dice have!

If there is something in nature you don't understand, odds are it makes sense in a deeper way that is beyond your understanding. So there is a logic to natural things that is much superior to our own. Just as there is a dichotomy in law: 'innocent until proven guilty' as opposed to 'guilty until proven innocent', let me express my rule as follows: what Mother Nature does is rigorous until proven otherwise; what humans and science do is flawed until proven otherwise.

Private equity has absolutely no reason to exist. The private equity holder has all the upside and the banks all the downside.

Poverty is clearly one source of emotional suffering, but there are others, like loneliness.

Weak men act to satisfy their needs, stronger men their duties.

Wit seduces by signaling intelligence without nerdiness.

Modernity: we created youth without heroism, age without wisdom, and life without grandeur