I completely agree with the concept that American citizens shouldn't expect that a failure of a bank would cost them money, or that it would hurt the economy.

The government has the right to change laws and rules and regulations.

You read constantly that banks are lobbying regulators and elected officials as if this is inappropriate. We don't look at it that way.

Don't do anything stupd. And don't waste money. Let everybody else waste money and do stupid things; then we'll buy them.

Just because you have a good hand today doesn't mean it's good tomorrow. And some of the things we're doing may become very disadvantageous at some point.

My daughter asked me when she came home from school, "What's the financial crisis?" and I said, it's something that happens every five to seven years.

Our plate is full. We have a lot to do building our company organically and that is our key focus.

We're going to do the right thing for the company and our customers, all things considered.

Businesses can be opaque. They are complex. You don't know how aircraft engines work either.

We have built a very good company, and we're proud of it. We also recognize that much of it has been built on the shoulders of the thousands of employees and leaders who have worked here before us.

You never know exactly how new policies are going to work. That doesn't mean you shouldn't try them.

Mindfulness helps us to set boundaries by revealing what makes us unhappy & what brings us peace.

A bachelor is one who enjoys the chase but does not eat the game.

The Palace is a good theater, you can see from everywhere.

Changing your nature is the hardest thing to do. But I discovered that you can be who you choose to be.

But the biggest thing that has happened in the world in my life, in our lives, is this: By the grace of God, America won the Cold War.

You don't have to give up who you are to be successful just because you're different.

It's fun to read things when you don't know all the words. Even children love it... they come up against weird words, and the weird words excite them.

in my skimmings over fiction I cannot recall any writer so continuously implicated in his own work as George Moore.

Gough, of course, would have loved to speak today but the rules of the game have disqualified him.

If it's what you do and you can do it, then you do it.