The essence of finance is to serve the real economy. Finance detached from the real economy is like water without a source or a tree without roots.

The fundamental fact about all of us is that we're alive for a while but will die before long.

Happiness is the very nature of the self; happiness and the self are not different. There is no happiness in any object of the world. We imagine through our ignorance that we derive happiness from objects.

Profitability and responsibility must go hand in hand, or neither will last.

The safety of the state is the highest law.