He who has never sinned is less reliable than he who has only sinned once. And someone who has made plenty of errors-though never the same error more than once-is more reliable than someone who has never made any.

What we do today has nothing to do with capitalism or socialism. It is a crony type of system that transfers money to the coffers of bureaucrats.

You find peace by coming to terms with what you don't know.

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

I don't know anyone on Wall Street who goes to work every day thinking of anything but how to increase their bonus.

You want to favor systems that benefit from error, disorder, variability and things like that. You want to favor these systems and unfortunately, when - there's something I call the Soviet Illusion. The more the government becomes intrusive, the more things have to follow a script, and it can't handle this kind of system.

Never trust a journalist unless she's your mother.