If you worry about financial Armageddon, it is indeed metaphorically the time to stock your bunker with guns, ammunition, canned food and gold bars.

The gains from technology must be channeled to a broader base of the population than has benefited so far.

In the history of modern capitalism, crises are the norm, not the exception.

I think investing in a good education has been key for me, although the investment was more in time than money.

I am not going to say I told you so, but I did.

The global financial crisis - missed by most analysts - shows that most forecasters are poor at pricing in economic/financial risks, let alone geopolitical ones.

You have to eventually nationalize US banks, you have to take the problem by the horns. In my view actually most of the US banking system is insolvent.

I think it's true that the 1 Percent or the elite are living in a world of, maybe, excessive privilege, and they don't fully realize how much pain and suffering, how much anxiety exists out there.

We're essentially continuing a system where profits are privatized and...losses socialized.

Once you run current-account deficits, you depend on the kindness of strangers. This might be the beginning of the end of the American empire.

Technology is spurring innovation, and the so-called "demographic dividend" has brought change.

Hope is a bird that sings the songs of possibilities from the deepness of the heart.

You can't eat [literature], that's the problem, " he said. "I've tried, it's very dry, and not at all nutritious.

I'm just saying love has a lot to do with the power of forgiveness.

Monastery you can't retire it's forever, there isn't music, films, parties and other crazy stuff. It's about spiritual life... It becomes harder and harder!

Saturday comes again, welcome or not, it comes again like it always does, welcome or not, wanted or not, another judgment day - The chance to be saved, the chance to be damned.

Just going on the road and entertaining the fans, that's amazing.

If you're a comedian, you are looking for material in daily life.

You know, there's times when you should play and there's times when you gotta hold back.

You cannot hear the waterfall if you stand next to it. I paint my jungles in the desert.

I'm not giving any guidance, OK. I mean, you know, mothers are not supposed to give guidance, right? Anyway, so he's [Sean] doing his own thing.