Indeed, better risk management may be the only truly necessary element of success in banking.

I have found no greater satisfaction than achieving success through honest dealing and strict adherence to the view that, for you to gain, those you deal with should gain as well.

The need for values is inbred. Their content is not.

The number one problem in today's generation and economy is the lack of financial literacy.

I guess I should warn you, if I turn out to be particularly clear, you've probably misunderstood what I've said.

Protectionism will do little to create jobs and if foreigners retaliate, we will surely lose jobs.

Remember what we're looking at. Gold is a currency. It is still, by all evidence, a premier currency, that no fiat currency, including the dollar, can match.

When trust is lost, a nation's ability to transact business is palpably undermined.

In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation. There is no safe store of value.

Gold still represents the ultimate form of payment in the world. Fiat money in extremis is accepted by nobody. Gold is always accepted.

To succeed, you will soon learn, as I did, the importance of a solid foundation in the basics of education - literacy, both verbal and numerical, and communication skills.

Nature answers every question.

How do you play Hannibal Lector? Well just don't move. Scare people by being still.

The incomparable stupidity of life teaches us to love our parents; divine philosophy teaches us to forgive them.

Humanistic ethics is based on the principle that only humans themselves can determine the criterion for virtue and not an authority transcending us.

We're not supposed to mention f***ing in mixed company, but that's exactly where it takes place.

I think boys don't always like to read books with female protagonist - I don't even know what to say about this.

I'm always nervous about going home, just as I am nervous about rereading books that have meant a lot to me.

Life is overwhelming. Life is not easy. Life is tough and you need something that really works and helps you actually, not promises to help you, then fail.

I'm from the Mississippi delta originally.

Most of my work consisted of crossing out. Crossing out was the secret of all good writing.