"Profits in business always depend on the rate of interest: the higher the interest, the higher the rate of profit required."

"In rising financial markets, the world is forever new. The bull or optimist has no eyes for past or present, but only for the future, where streams of revenue play in his imagination."

"Whatever else it was, Adolf Hitler's short-lived regime was also a colossal industrial process by which the wealth and productive power of much of Europe was wrenched from its normal purposes and converted into a machine for killing."

"One of the consequences of the Iranian revolution has been an explosion of history. A country once known only from British consular reports and intrepid travelogues is now awash with historical documents, letters, diaries, grainy video, weblogs and secret police files of questionable authenticity."

"The older I get the more wisdom I find in the ancient rule of taking first things first. A process which often reduces the most complex human problem to a manageable proportion."

"According to materialistic science, any memory requires a material substrate, such as the neuronal network in the brain or the DNA molecules of the genes."

"To lead with integrity is to walk the narrow path where words and actions are one. A lesson woven into the fabric of human history — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"Breathe deeply, anchor your attention in this breath, and let the storm pass. A lesson woven into the fabric of human history — an essential principle for the reflective life."