"The mind of a bigot to the pupil of the eye; the more light you pour on it, the more it contracts."

“In the Jewish Quarter [Judengasse] was I born and educated; until my fifteenth year, they tried to beat the Talmud into me. My teachers were inhuman beings [Unmenschen], my colleagues were bad company, inducing me to secret sin; my body was frail, my spirit raw.”

Source : "Hess' Diary" by Moses Hess, September 16, 1836.

“Entertaining the reader is a good function.”

Source : Source: www.newyorker.com

“Money is like hormones. It's just how you feel on any given day.”

“The essence of risk management lies in maximizing the areas where we have some control over the outcome while minimizing the areas where we have absolutely no control over the outcome.”

Source : Peter L. Bernstein (2012). “Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk”, p.239, John Wiley & Sons

“The book known by the name of the Apocalypse, has seemed to be until now unintelligible, merely because people persisted to see in it a real prediction of the future, which every one has explained after his own fashion, and in which they have always found what they wanted, namely anything but that, what the book contained.”

Source : Charles François Dupuis (2016). “The Origin of all Religious Worship”, p.372, Lulu.com

“I wish... I wish he wasn't quite so ashamed of me. And if he could stop feeling so ashamed of himself, then maybe we might stand a chance.”

“If you can react the same way to winning and losing, that's a big accomplishment. That quality is important because it stays with you the rest of your life, and there's going to be a life after tennis that's a lot longer than your tennis life.”

“I was born accidentally. I lived accidentally in London. We nearly migrated to New Zealand. So much of my life has been a product of chance, I can't see a meaning in it at all.”