A financial institution has the task of taking risks, and if it's a well run institution - say, Goldman Sachs - it tries to cover the potential losses to itself, but only to itself.

Under the worst conditions, horrendous conditions, people still, you know, fight for their rights and don't just succumb.

When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary.

I have thought there was some advantage even in death, by which we mingle with the herd of common men.

Man's task is to become conscious of the contents that press upward from the unconscious.