Encourage others each and every day-nothing's more important than our words.
I think bankers will always get away with whatever they can get away with.
A desk is a dangerous place from which to view the world.
I think the greatest single enemy is the misuse of information, the perversion of truth in the hands of terribly skillful people.
My definition of a decent society is one that first of all takes care of its losers, and protects its weak. What I see in my country, progressively over these years, is that the rich have got richer, the poor have got poorer. The rich have become indifferent through a philosophy of greed, and the poorer have become hopeless because they're not properly cared for. That's actually something that is happening in many Western societies. Your own, I am told, is not free from it.
Let's all pretend to be someone else, and then perhaps we'll find out who we are.
There is a terrible alienation in the ordinary man between what he is being told and what he secretly believes.
The more complex the world situation becomes, the more scientific and rational analysis you have to have, the less you can do with simple good will and sentiment.
I come from people who did not go to college. They didn't even finish high school. People who one might call ordinary Americans who are very hardworking.
If we insist on being as sure as is conceivable. . . we must be content to creep along the ground, and never soar.
Somehow I have managed to delay looking old. In reality I have good genes.