Banking is a very treacherous business because you don't realize it is risky until it is too late. It is like calm waters that deliver huge storms.

When you develop your opinions on the basis of weak evidence, you will have difficulty interpreting subsequent information that contradicts these opinions, even if this new information is obviously more accurate.

The classical man's worst fear was inglorious death; the modern man's worst fear is just death

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.

In the United States large corporations control some members of Congress. All this does is delay the corporation’s funeral at our expense.

Your reputation is harmed the most by what you say to defend it.

Half of the people lie with their lips; the other half with their tears