Art collecting has traditionally been the domain of wealthy individuals in search of rewards beyond the purely financial.

If companies tell us more, insider trading will be worth less.

Paradoxically, the best way for a group to be smart is for each person in it to think and act as independently as possible.

I do think to some extent multitasking is a way of fooling ourselves that we're being exceptionally efficient.

Diversity and independence are important because the best collective decisions are the product of disagreement and contest, not consensus or compromise.

In the business world, bad news is usually good news - for somebody else.

Most of the work on multitasking suggests that it generally makes you less efficient, not more.

It may be that the very qualities that help people get ahead are the ones that make them ill-suited for managing crises. It's hard to prepare for the worst when you think you're the best.

The important thing about groupthink is that it works not so much by censoring dissent as by making dissent seem somehow improbable.

Although oil is a commodity, it's still not a commodity like coffee, which, thank God, we will have with us always. At some point the oil will run out.

If we want our regulators to do better, we have to embrace a simple idea: regulation isn't an obstacle to thriving free markets; it's a vital part of them.

It is stupid to hope, but sometimes hope is all you have.

The future is bright like the morning sun.

The world just goes along. Nothing much matters, you know? I mean really matters. but then sometimes, just for a second, you get this grace, this belief that it does matter, a whole lot.

With age, you get to a place where you don't want to knock people out. You just want to give people a hug.

The fawning courtier and the surly squire often mean the same thing,--each his own interest.

Remember you must die whether you sit about moping all day long or whether on feast days you stretch out in a green field, happy with a bottle of Falernian from your innermost cellar.

I can have incredible self-discipline. But see, I think it's obviously a form of stupidity.

Swans are majestic, beautiful looking creatures. With really ugly temperaments.

I want to be free... free to develop my art.

Where the Scriptures speak, we speak; where the Scriptures are silent, we are silent.