Today we have a health insurance industry where the first and foremost goal is to maximize profits for shareholders and CEOs, not to cover patients who have fallen ill or to compensate doctors and hospitals for their services. It is an industry that is increasingly concentrated and where Americans are paying more to receive less.

We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both.

I commuted to the prestigious Hibiya High School from my uncle's home in Tokyo. During the high school years, I developed an interest in chemistry, so upon graduation, I chose to take an entrance examination for the Department of Chemistry of the University of Kyoto, the old capital of Japan.

After graduation from high school, I attended the university entrance examination, and fortunately, I was accepted by the Department of Pharmacy and became a student at the Medical School of Peking University.

I do not believe in God; his existence has been disproved by Science. But in the concentration camp, I learned to believe in men.

When you realize the value of all life, you dwell on what is past and concentrate more on the preservation of the future.

After the Berlin Wall came down I visited that city and I will never forget it. The abandoned checkpoints. The sense of excitement about the future. The knowledge that a great continent was coming together. Healing those wounds of our history is the central story of the European Union.

When decentralized blockchain protocols start displacing the centralized web services that dominate the current Internet, we'll start to see real internet-based sovereignty. The future Internet will be decentralized.

When you realize the value of all life, you dwell less on what is past and concentrate more on the preservation of the future.

When the mind once allows a doubt to gain entrance, the value of deeds performed grow less, their character changes, we forget the past and dread the future.

Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.

The degree of freedom from unwanted thoughts and the degree of concentration on a single thought are the measures to gauge spiritual progress.

Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.

Forgiveness is a gift, and central to faith.

In 2010, I created World Central Kitchen as a way to try and help find solutions to many of the food issues we face.

I didn't eat at many restaurants when I was younger. There wasn't much in South Central anyways, except for fast food joints.

Physical activity can improve immunity, concentration in the classroom and aerobic fitness.

Mastering a few simple techniques helped me to improve my technique massively using equipment like the pull buoy and central snorkel to isolate certain parts of the body. I was then able to swim for longer, faster and improve my fitness dramatically.

Players like Alastair Cook do not come around very often. To play for so long and achieve so much says everything about his fitness, concentration, discipline and skill.

For much of the year, you're just trying to maintain your fitness. It's not often you get a lot of time to really concentrate on improving it.

I am concentrating on my fitness levels so that I don't look old.

All the central banks are doing is substituting one form of debt with another form of debt. They're issuing short term debt and using it to buy long term debt. In finance, we tend to think that's a neutral activity, even though those stimulus programs are huge.

The Fed's organization reflects a long-standing desire in American history to ensure that power over our nation's monetary policy and financial system is not concentrated in a few hands, whether in Washington or in high finance or in any single group or constituency.

I've lived to see key parts of my research absorbed in textbooks and in central banks around the world. And some finance ministries, too.