“The simple proposition should be that you don’t want people being paid for taking too much risk, and you want to make sure that their compensation is tied to long-term performance.” – Timothy F. Geithner, the Treasury secretary.

The court is like a palace built of marble; I mean that it is made up of very hard and very polished people. – Jean de la Fontaine, poet and fabulist (1621-1695)

“If you lose your job tomorrow, you’ve still got food.” – Lloyd Romriell, of Annis, Idaho, who has begun raising chickens.

“The antidote for fifty enemies is one friend.” – Aristotle

“To dare is to lose one’s footing momentarily. To not dare is to lose oneself.” – Soren Kierkegaard

“It was horrible, physically. I was dizzy. My thoughts just left me.” – Kazungu Ziwa, one of an increasing number of men raped in a crackdown against rebels in Congo.

“Determine never to be idle…It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.” – Thomas Jefferson

“It was all fake. It was all fictitious. It was wrong, and I knew it was wrong at the time.” – Frank DiPascali, described as a crucial figure in the $65 billion Ponzi scheme run by Bernard L. Madoff.

“Where lipstick is concerned, the important thing is not color, but to accept God’s final word on where your lips end.”

“How hard it is, sometimes, to trust the evidence of one’s senses! How reluctantly the mind consents to reality.”