At no point in history have so many non-risk-takers, that is, those with no personal exposure, exerted so much control.

You will get the most attention from those who hate you. No friend, no admirer and no partner will flatter you with as much curiosity.

Meditation is a way to be narcissistic without hurting anyone

Writing is the art of repeating oneself without anyone noticing.

If you let markets - in general, my belief is that if you let markets give you information, they'll give you the information rather than artificially prop up everything.

Suckers think that you cure greed with money, addiction with substances, expert problems with experts, banking with bankers, economics with economists, and debt crises with debt spending

But they never notice the following inconsistency: this so-called worst-case event, when it happened, exceeded the worst case at the time.