Weak men act to satisfy their needs, stronger men their duties.

The traits I respect are erudition and the courage to stand up when half-men are afraid for their reputation. Any idiot can be intelligent.

Never think that lack of variability is stability. Don't confuse lack of volatility with stability, ever.

Aesthetics, ethics, and many good things in humans are contagious.

Charm is the ability to insult people without offending them; nerdiness the reverse

If you want to annoy a poet, explain his poetry.

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!