“Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around us in awareness.”

“Anger prepares us to fight and fear prepares us to flee.”

“Fear is an instinct, like hunger or anger. We need it to help us survive, and it is nothing to be ashamed of. It lets us know whether we should fight or flee.”

“When the world moves forward too fast for some people, they try to pull us all back with their fear.”

“There are no maps to lead us where we are going, to this new world of our own making. As the world looks back to nine decades of war, of strife, of suspicion, let us also look forward—to a new century, and a new millennium, of peace, freedom and prosperity.”

“But still anger ought be far from us, for nothing is able to be done rightly nor judiciously with anger.”
Sed tamen ira procul absit, cum qua nihil recte fieri nec considerate potest.

“Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.”

“Economics presents us with a powerful, and not necessarily complex, set of analytical tools that can be used to look back and explain why events unfolded the way they did; to look around and make sense of the world; and to look forward so that we can anticipate the effects of major policy changes. Economics is like gravity: Ignore it and you will be in for some rude surprises.”

“A part of us stayed like that: fearful of the world around us, and-no matter how much we despised ourselves for it-unable quite to let each other go.”

“All the barbarism is not behind us nor around us. History looks dark and discouraging to us, as we turn its terrible pages, but we would see something just as discouraging if we would look into a mirror.”