You will be civilized on the day you can spend a long period doing nothing, learning nothing, and improving nothing, without feeling the slightest amount of guilt.

A country's assets reside in the tinkerers, the hobbyists, and the risk-takers.

They will envy you for your success, your wealth, for your intelligence, for your looks, for your status - but rarely for your wisdom.

If my detractors knew me better they would hate me even more.

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

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.

Things always become obvious after the fact