Our commercial bank [JPMorgan] is only in the U.S. We are serving what you call SMEs - small businesses, private companies.

The government has the right to change laws and rules and regulations.

You read constantly that banks are lobbying regulators and elected officials as if this is inappropriate. We don't look at it that way.

Don't do anything stupd. And don't waste money. Let everybody else waste money and do stupid things; then we'll buy them.

Just because you have a good hand today doesn't mean it's good tomorrow. And some of the things we're doing may become very disadvantageous at some point.

My daughter asked me when she came home from school, "What's the financial crisis?" and I said, it's something that happens every five to seven years.

Our plate is full. We have a lot to do building our company organically and that is our key focus.

We're going to do the right thing for the company and our customers, all things considered.

Businesses can be opaque. They are complex. You don't know how aircraft engines work either.

We have built a very good company, and we're proud of it. We also recognize that much of it has been built on the shoulders of the thousands of employees and leaders who have worked here before us.

You never know exactly how new policies are going to work. That doesn't mean you shouldn't try them.

I feel like getting married, or committing suicide, or subscribing to L'Illustration. Something desperate, you know.

Not that believing such things has anything to do with whether they are true. You see that, don't you?

The only thing weaker than a toddler's handshake is their immune system.

Conscious breath control is a useful tool for achieving a relaxed, clear state of mind.

Los Angeles: Seventy-two suburbs in search of a city.

I think all characters that we play are facets of ourselves.

That icy glass reduces your beauty - dims your fire - let me be your mirror...

No human thing is of serious importance.

No prayer fully expresses our faith.

. . . the state of things and the dispositions of men were then such, that a man could not well tell whom he might trust or whom he might fear.