It is better by noble boldness to run the risk of being subject to half of the evils we anticipate than to remain in cowardly listlessness for fear of what might happen.

People are just as wonderful as sunsets if you let them be. When I look at a sunset, I don't find myself saying, 'Soften the orange a bit on the right hand corner.' I don't try to control a sunset. I watch with awe as it unfolds.

The human being is always more than what he knows of himself.

Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.

When you're the central bank, you have to think about the unthinkable.

"What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness."

There is no absolute security, only relative risk control.