Today there is no symbolic compensation for old age, no recognition of a specific value: wisdom, perceptiveness, experience, vision.

If I had to create a god, I would lend him a “slow understanding”: a kind of drip-by-drip understanding of problems. People who understand quickly frighten me.

Don’t bleach language, savour it instead. Stroke it gently or even groom it, but don’t “purify” it.

Selecting the right measure and measuring things right are both art and science. And KPIs influence management behavior as well as business culture.

There are certain words which are nearer and dearer to a man than any others.

Nature is wont to hide herself.

If our civilization is destroyed, it will not be by his barbarians from below. Our barbarians come from above.

Russia hasn't paid any attention to ISIS. They're interested in keeping Assad in power.

I always like to make sequels. It's a nice business to be in.

Anyone who thinks that the last 80 years, ever since FDR took us off gold, have been a doomed venture, that strikes me as kind of cranky.

If "socialism" is defined as "ownership of the means of production"--and this is both the orthodox and the only rigorous definition--then the United States is the first truly Socialist country.

A recession is when your neighbor loses his job. A depression is when you lose yours.

Do you realize, when Mandela was inaugurated president, he invited as his special guests the white jailers from his Robben Island prison? He literally did forgive everybody.