It's a Wonderful Life. This film illustrates that if you treat your customers with respect, they will recognize you and even help when you're most in need.

The challenge of our generation, whether it's young lawyers, young investment bankers, is to make capitalism work for people not just around the corner, but for people all around the world.

When you go to a Japense wedding, make sure that you tie the ribbon on the present tightly because if you don't, you may imply that you don't think the marriage will last.

It is important to understand that the most important currency is social debt. Doing things for others. In order to get, you have to give.

All organisms rely on exchange. They form symbiotic partnerships in order to obtain the energy that they need to survive. Energy is the currency of nature.

Money numbs your senses. People who touched paper money and then placed their hands in hot burning water didn't feel as much pain as those who hadn't touched money.

On a biological level, the brain registers money as something valuable - even a dollar bill which has no intrinsic value, it's just paper.

Money is really like blood. You need it to live but it isn't the point of life.

Just the idea of making money can increase your skin conductancy, meaning there's a current of excitement.

Researchers have compared brain scans of those people who are making money to those high on cocaine and found that them to be almost identical. Money has a biological and psychological effect on us.

The oldest and most important currency is debt.

The wise are not wise because they make no mistakes. They are wise because they correct their mistakes as soon as they recognize them.

A poor original is better than a good imitation.

People like to be around those who give off positive energy.

Nothing is illegal if one hundred businessmen decide to do it.

The world is wide, wide, wide, and I am young, young, young, and we’re all going to live forever!

We have come into this exquisite world to experience ever and ever more deeply our divine courage, freedom and light!

Football is my guilty pleasure.

Compassion can shoulder the suffering of the entire world without feeling the slightest bit of pain.

I don't read reviews any more, but I'm told by my publisher who gives me an account of what people have been writing and it's been a very split kind of response.

Art and music shine a light of meaning on ordinary life, and through them we are able to confront the things that trouble us and to find consolation and peace in their presence.