We would like a stable policy framework, and whatever incentives and tax structures are there should be made known to investors upfront. There should be credibility, clarity and continuity in both policy formulation and its implementation.

The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.

Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind.

It’s a rather rude gesture, but at least it’s clear what you mean.

Suit the action to the word, the word to the action.

Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fascinating.

No one ever doubts that I mean what I say. The problem is I sometimes say all that I mean.

On the whole, we think of our consumers – other judges, lawyers, the public. The law that the Supreme Court establishes is the law that they must live by, so all things considered, it’s better to have it clearer than confusing.

Many people find the universe confusing – it’s not.

Always prefer the plain direct word to the long, vague one. Don’t implement promises, but keep them.

Genius is a potential that lives within you and every other human being. You have many moments of genius in your lifetime. These are the times when you have a uniquely brilliant idea and implement it even if only you are aware of how fantastic it is.

Why a four-year-old child could understand this report. Run out and find me a four-year-old child. I can’t make head nor tail out of it.

If you have God on your side, everything becomes clear.

I experience a period of frightening clarity in those moments when nature is so beautiful. I am no longer sure of myself, and the paintings appear as in a dream.

You and I are all as much continuous with the physical universe as a wave is continuous with the ocean.

Obama did organize a great large number of people and many enthusiastic people, what’s called in the press ‚Obama’s Army.‘ But the army is supposed to take instructions, not to implement, to introduce, develop programs and call on its own candidate to implement them. That’s critical.

What we have to find is the right level of regulation of our financial system so that it has the incentive to invest in things, but at the same time, it is sufficiently regulated so it can’t get in the kind of trouble that we have seen in the past and we have seen recently.

However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?

In theory, the MSRB is supposed to protect the public interest, investors, and state and local governments. In practice, the MSRB membership structure is more shaded toward protecting the financial professionals who broker the deals.

I meant what I said and I said what I meant.

One of the best predictors of policy around is Thomas Ferguson’s investment theory of politics, as he calls it – very outstanding political economist – which essentially – I mean, to say it in a sentence, he describes elections as occasions in which groups of investors coalesce and invest to control the state.

Everything is clearer when you’re in love.

Write in such a way as that you can be readily understood by both the young and the old, by men as well as women, even by children.

I don’t consider myself to be that credulous.

Remember that all financial markets are filled with good but not necessarily innocent people looking after their own self-interests before they look after yours.

Don’t use words too big for the subject. Don’t say ‚infinitely‘ when you mean ‚very‘; otherwise you’ll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.

If you have an important point to make, don’t try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time – a tremendous whack.

Fiction is not necessarily about what you know, it’s about how you feel. That is the truth about fiction, and the other truth is that all science is a tool, and we use our tools not to actualise what we know, but to implement how we feel.

I knew credibility would come only in time and through earnest performances.

Always try to use the language so as to make quite clear what you mean and make sure your sentence couldn’t mean anything else.

Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion.

The world remains ever the same.

Good leaders must communicate vision clearly, creatively, and continually. However, the vision doesn’t come alive until the leader models it.

As international support for Obama’s decision to attack Syria has collapsed, along with the credibility of government claims, the administration has fallen back on a standard pretext for war crimes when all else fails: the credibility of the threats of the self-designated policeman of the world.

For diplomacy to be effective, words must be credible – and no one can now doubt the word of America.

The main thing that’s missing in energy is an incentive to create things that are zero-CO2-emitting and that have the right scale and reliability characteristics.

In an interconnected age when opportunistic adversaries can work in tandem to destroy stability and prosperity, our country needs to regain its strategic footing. We need to bring the clarity to our efforts before we lose the confidence of the American people and the support of potential allies.

The wine of youth does not always clear with advancing years; sometimes it grows turbid.

I only see clearly what I remember.

We all sort of do want incentives for creative people to still exist at a certain level. You know, maybe rock stars shouldn’t make as much; who knows? But you want as much creativity to take place in the future as took place in the past.

Let us be absolutely clear about one thing: we must not confuse humility with false modesty or servility.

Brevity and conciseness are the parents of correction.

The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.

I don’t have stylistic loyalty. That’s why people perceive me changing all the time. But there is a real continuity in my subject matter. As an artist of artifice, I do believe I have more integrity than any one of my contemporaries.

I’m not confused. I’m just well mixed.

If I am judged for my work, many myths about me as an autocrat or otherwise would become clearer. I feel false propaganda will not last, and truth will ultimately prevail.

All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses.

If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.

A man does not know what he is saying until he knows what he is not saying.

Can the mind see the truth of its own incapacity to know the unknown? Surely if I see very clearly that my mind cannot know the unknown, there is absolute quietness.

The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.

Continuous eloquence wearies. Grandeur must be abandoned to be appreciated. Continuity in everything is unpleasant. Cold is agreeable, that we may get warm.

The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom… in a clarification of life – not necessarily a great clarification, such as sects and cults are founded on, but in a momentary stay against confusion.

It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood.

No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.

To the extent I am known, I think I am known as a person who expresses his opinion freely about things – and I was sensitive to the possibility that if I was seen taking money for saying nice things about a product, my comments and choices and opinions would become, understandably, suspect.

We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.

Good governance with good intentions is the hallmark of our government. Implementation with integrity is our core passion.

Good writing is like a windowpane.

A lack of realism in the vision today costs credibility tomorrow.

Order, unity, and continuity are human inventions, just as truly as catalogues and encyclopedias.