"You should be treating yourself like you are your own best friend."

“Through exploitation of its influence over global financial affairs, the United States has been able to cover the costs of its hegemonic position, preserve a false domestic prosperity, and mask the consequences of its relative political and economic decline.”

Source : Robert Gilpin (2016). “The Political Economy of International Relations”, p.308, Princeton University Press

“Every day I try to be in communication with the universe in an unconscious way.”

“Kaoru: Grownups are so tiresome. They fake their smiles all day long and they try to force us to do the same. It's no fun at all.”

“Man—every man—is an end in himself, not a means to the ends of others; he must live for his own sake, neither sacrificing himself to others nor sacrificing others to himself; he must work for his rational self-interest, with the achievement of his own happiness as the highest moral purpose of his life.”

“The rule seems to be that those who find no difficulty in deceiving themselves are easily deceived by others. They are easily persuaded and led.”

“Vietnam was an exercise in mistaken idealism Iraq in cynical money-making. And there's no optimism or idealism now -- Americans are tired of knowledge. Our leaders, the C-students from Yale, know this. We're proud of being ignorant that leaves virtue at our core. We aren't frazzled by knowledge like foreigners, so we can be trusted.”

“There are a lot of ethical firms on Wall Street.”

Source : "Online Extra: Q&A with CSFB's John Mack". Interview with Emily Thornton, www.bloomberg.com. September 23, 2002.

“Humor is proof that everything is going to be all right with God nevertheless.”