The three most harmful addictions are heroin, carbohydrates, and a monthly salary.

Stoicism is about the *domestication* of emotions, not their elimination.

It might be useful to be able to predict war. But tension does not necessarily lead to war, but often to peace and to denouement.

Janet Yellen at the FED is equivalent to having a biology schoolteacher who has never seen blood perform brain surgery.

Any system that is deprived of its natural volatility, with government up (unintelligible) volatile, any system becomes very fragile.

Success is about honour, feeling morally calibrated, absence of shame, not what some newspaper defines from an external metric.

Being an economist is the least ethical profession, closer to charlatanism than any science.