The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.
The bond market is the ultimate gauge of market expectations.
The unexamined life is not worth living.
The joy of solving a mathematical problem is unparalleled; it is a moment of pure intellectual triumph.
Poetry is perhaps what teaches us to nurture the charming illusion: how to be reborn out of ourselves over and over again, and use words to construct a better world, a fictitious world that enables us to sign a pact for a permanent and comprehensive peace ... with life.