I think there's a tide that tends to carry historians back to the past.

Mutual funds have historically offered safety and diversification. And they spare you the responsibility of picking individual stocks.

One of the very nice things about investing in the stock market is that you learn about all different aspects of the economy. It's your window into a very large world.

I'm a biographer; I can live with a little hyperbole.

There is no country in the world where it's as easy to find venture capital in the stock market as the United States.

There is a kind of fear, approaching a panic, that's spreading through the Baby Boom Generation, which has suddenly discovered that it will have to provide for its own retirement.

I don't think that a mutual fund that invests exclusively in biotech start-ups or invests exclusively in companies in Thailand offers any great safety or diversification.

I have developed a very strong partiality for the dead: they don't talk back, they don't sue, and they don't have angry relatives.

The securities laws of the 1930s were so important because it forced companies to file registration statements and issue prospectuses, and it remedied the imbalance of information.

Early on, New York already had a national and even international identity.

Hamilton had one of those extraordinary 18th-century minds that touched on virtually every major topic of the day.

The object isn't to make art, it's to be in that wonderful state which makes art inevitable.

It was somehow slightly frightening, like the gambolling of tiger cubs which will soon grow up into man-eaters.

Carve out and claim the time to care for yourself and kindle your own fire.

Get the facts. Ask questions and listen intently to the answers before responding.

The food in such places is so tasteless because the members associate spices and garlic with just the sort of people they're trying to keep out.

Im sitting in a chair but in the future its a throne.

There is nothing so well known as that we should not expect something for nothing - but we all do and call it Hope.

Most people like the sad songs. Some of the oldest songs known to man are sad. Listening to a voice singing something sad is a really great way to help you to feel sad when you need to.

Don't stray from your Heart's intent.

M. Myriel had to undergo the fate of every newcomer in a little town, where there are many mouths which talk, and very few heads which think.