Elites play the role today that landlords played under feudalism. They levy interest and financial fees that are like a tax, to support what the classical economists called "unproductive activity."

We go forward with our heads held high, but look back and remember where we come from.

You have a choice. Either you can have more oil, or more clean water. Fracking is not good for the water supply.

The one sure mark of a con, though, is the promise of free money.

What's bad for the frackers usually is good for the rest of the world.

Nothing could be better for the economy than to get rid of fracking.

Every government, from the Obama administration right through to Angela Merkel, the Eurozone and the IMF, promise to save the banks, not the economy.

Nobody prefers to earn income any more, because that's taxable. Rich people prefer to make capital gains.

We're still in the collapse that began after 2008. There's not a new collapse, there hasn't been a recovery.

To the deficit commission, a depression is the solution to the problem, not a problem.

One basic myth is that rich people get wealthy by earning income. But that's not how most get rich. Most of the gains of the rich people since 1945 have been "capital gains".

I believe [the architecture firm] Herzog and de Meuron and our collaboration made the product the best it could be.

Find things that make you feel still, that make you feel good.

One cannot deny the humanity of another without diminishing one's own.

Love what you do and do what you love, even if it means living in a van and screaming at God every night.

People who want to find a place of rest, want to find an integrated personality, sense of self, want fewer fractures in their lives.

If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late.

When one works and imagines and dreams of nothing else than the search for answers that God has posed, it is difficult to be so still.

A plea for the spinning wheel is a plea for recognizing the dignity of labour.

It is God who enables us to return to life after tragedy-not by eradicating all suffering but by giving us the strength and the courage to heal what we can heal.

To understand the living present, and the promise of the future, it is necessary to remember the past.