The grandchildren should not bear the debts of the grandparents.

The person you are most afraid to contradict is yourself.

Bankers, they're not harmed by their mistakes. They benefit when things go right, and the society pays the price.

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

Further, in writing, I feel corrupt and unethical if I have to look up a subject in a library as part of the writing itself. This acts as a filter--it is the only filter. If the subject is not interesting enough for me to look it up independently, for my own curiosity or purposes, and I have not done so before, then I should not be writing about it at all, period. It does not mean that libraries (physical and virtual) are not acceptable; it means that they should not be the source of any idea.

Love without sacrifice is like theft

If you roll dice, you know that the odds are one in six that the dice will come up on a particular side. So you can calculate the risk. But, in the stock market, such computations are bull - you don't even know how many sides the dice have!