"We are in a world of irredeemable paper money - a state of affairs unprecedented in history."

“As one lamp serves to dispel a thousand years of darkness, so one flash of wisdom destroys ten thousand years of ignorance.”

Source : Huineng (1967). “The Platform Sutra of the Sixth Patriarch”

“I don't know if, at the end of the day, how brave Saddam Hussein would be if he were stripped of his bodyguards and everything else.”

“Once you have sold a customer, make sure he is satisfied with your goods. Stay with him until the goods are used up or worn out. Your product may be of such long life that you will never sell him again, but he will sell you and your product to his friends.”

“Some will protest that in a world with so much human suffering, it is something between eccentric and obscene to mourn a dog. I think not. After all, it is perfectly normal—indeed, deeply human—to be moved when nature presents us with a vision of great beauty. Should we not be moved when it produces a vision—a creature—of the purest sweetness?”

“Primitive, simplistic anti-Communism is all too often used as a common denominator for diverse efforts to perpetuate one's own power in a democratic system, convert opinions into dogma, and kill off all opposition, even silent.”

“I think Gov. Romney and Congressman Ryan are living in a fairly tale land on their energy policy.”

“The Americans who framed our Constitution felt that without freedom of religion no other freedom counted.”

“If you want to know who was better, me or Willie Mays, you have to look at our career stats. And Willie's bottom line was better.”