We need to move beyond the demonisation of overpaid traders ... In finance and economics, ill-designed policy is a more powerful force for harm than individual greed or error.

If your credit is going to grow at 10-15 percent per year in order to get your 5 percent GDP growth per year, eventually you're going to have a problem. This isn't a stable system.

The probability that we face global warming caused by fossil fuels is now so overwhelming that it is legitimate to doubt the motives of those who deny it

In economics, when you put together a highly elastic thing and a highly inelastic thing, you create extraordinary potential for turbulence, volatility, and for unstable prices.

Rising inequality can create a more highly leveraged economy, and it can then make the economy vulnerable to a crash like 2008.

In absolute terms, we may have to look at restricting the number of flights people take.

Live each day as if your life had just begun.

Life doesn’t owe us anything. We only owe ourselves, to make the most of the life we are living, of the time we have left, and to live in gratitude.

A philosopher will not believe what he sees because he is too busy speculating about what he does not see.

Questioning our stressful thoughts, we come to see they're not true.

A man is not a wall, whose stones are crushed upon the road; or a pipe, whose fragments are thrown away at a street corner. The fragments of an intellect are always good.

Our individual fates are linked our futures intertwined

One of the most radical things that you can do is really listen to someone.

We were never friends. Not for a second. I loved you.

As a straight news correspondent I would never make an issue of someone's personal life unless they have put it out there for public consumption.

Behind every glorious facade there is always hidden something ugly.