"For more than 3,000 years, China and India accounted for half of the world's economic output. But then the Industrial Revolution gave North America and Europe 150 golden years. If you take the long-term perspective, our economic dominance has been more of an exception than the rule."

“The strangest thing about strange things is that they're only strange when you hear about them or think about them later, but never when you're living them.”

Source : Lori Lansens (2006). “The Girls: A Novel”, p.119, Hachette UK

“A self-made man may prefer a self-made name.”

“If the prisoner should ask the judge whether he would be content to be hanged, were he in his case, he would answer no. Then, says the prisoner, do as you would be done to.”

“A person's behavior is rational if it is in his best interests, given his information”

Source : "War and peace". Robert J. Aumann's Nobel Prize Lecture, December 8, 2005.

“Muichi Motsu: "Hold nothing": If you meet Buddha, kill Buddha. If you meet the patriarchs, kill the patriarchs. Free of all, bound by nothing, you live your life simply as it is”

“I'm a reflection of the community.”

“There is nothing wrong with being poor; but there is everything wrong with remaining poor after you have discovered your riches in Christ.”

Source : The Daily Telegraph, 1977.

“Go where glory waits thee! But while fame elates thee, Oh, still remember me!”