History doesn't crawl; it leaps.

What we need to do is break the financial community's grip on society.

If you are in banking and lending, surprise outcomes are likely to be negative for you.

He who has never sinned is less reliable than he who has only sinned once.

Alan Greenspan is unskilled; you don't take the unskilled seriously.

Hard work will get you a professorship or a BMW. You need both work and luck for a Booker, a Nobel or a private jet.

Muscles without strength, friendship without trust, opinion without risk, change without aesthetics, age without values, food without nourishment, power without fairness, facts without rigor, degrees without erudition, militarism without fortitude, progress without civilization, complication without depth, fluency without content; these are the sins to remember.