Morality binds and blinds. It binds us into ideological teams that fight each other as though the fate of the world depended on our side winning each battle. It blinds us to the fact that each team is composed of good people who have something important to say.

I am interested in the way people lie to themselves, the stories they tell themselves to make life bearable.

The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.

道德文化的最高阶段是当我们认识到应该控制自己的思想时。

没有刻苦钻研的精神，就不能明辨事情的道理；没有专心致志的工作，就不会取得显赫的成绩。

Once in a while the phenomena we exploit are particularly present. We like a reasonable amount of volatility. In our business we want some action. “Tumult is usually good for us. We don’t have credit lines of any significance. We don’t do a lot of leveraged-type financing.