I think the Chinese are really amateurs when it comes to running markets.

Nobody really knows what the market is going to do, but it sure looks like we are going to have a lot more volatility.

China's stock market is not very big. And yet when stock market has a bad day in China, it seems, Europe has a bad day and then we have a bad day.

There is also a concern that there is a lack of demand of oil. And so when commodity prices fall, it's good if you happen to be a consumer, but it's sometimes seen as symptom of a weakening economy.

If the government can't get the economy moving again, they have a lot of fundamental problems.

It may be that the U.S. stock market starts to rise if people think it's gone far enough.

I think the one thing that's going on here is that people are saying, uh-oh, the Chinese economy might be slowing more than we thought and the government is having a hard time stimulating it again.

Chinese don't really believe in markets. They like stability, they like control.

The only reason you would want your currency to fall, if you could control it, is in order to get more exports.

If you don't have a set of principles that you can explain for what you are doing, then how can anybody know what you're going to do next?

Smile to lighten up.

All of nature begins to whisper its secrets to us through its sounds. Sounds that were previously incomprehensible to our soul now become the meaningful language of nature.

The least one can say of power is that a vocation for it is suspicious.

'Sightseers' started off as a character comedy double act.

Money is like manure. It stinks when you pile it; it grows when you spread it

And also, there are so many times when you need to make a quick escape, but humans don't have their own wings, or not yet, anyway, so what about a birdseed shirt?

She knows who she is, because she knows who she isn't.

Your own reason is the only oracle given to you by God.

The art of work . . . It is going to your work as you go to worship, with a prayer of thankfulness and the aspiration to serve.

Had laws not been, we never had been blam'd; For not to know we sinn'd is innocence.